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NEW  YORK: 
PUBLISHED   BY  THE  TRIBUNE  ASSOCIATION. 

1873. 


Entered,  according  to  Act  of  Congress,  in  the  year  18T3,  by 

THE    TRIBUNE    ASSOCIATION, 

In  the  Office  of  the  Librarian  of  Congress  at  Washington. 


Bakkr  &  Godwin,  Printer'*, 
PrintinR-House  Square,  New  York. 


INTRODUCTOPiY  NOTE. 


The  death  of  Horace  Greeley  called  forth,  a  nniversal 
expression  of  sympathy  and  homage,  such  as  has  rarely 
been  manifested  on  the  departure  of  any  public  man,  how- 
ever exalted  in  position  or  noble  in  character.  From  every 
quarter  of  the  country  the  tribute  of  a  people' s  grief  has 
been  freely  offered,  with  the  heartfelt  commemoration  of 
the  virtues  of  the  beloved  dead.  The  Press  and  the  Pulpit 
have  vied  with  each  other  in  celebrating  his  worth,  and 
honoring  his  name  with  affectionate  admiration. 

A  large  number  of  the  friends  of  Mr.  Greeley  have 
expressed  the  deske  to  possess  these  memorials  in  a  per- 
manent form,  and  in  compliance  with  theu'  wishes  the  pres- 
ent volume  has  been  prepared,  under  the  direction  of  the 
Editor  of  T7ie  Tribune.  It  consists  of  a  selection  from  the 
numerous  articles  in  various  journals,  together  with  notices 
from  the  pulpit  that  have  been  suggested  by  Mr.  Gree- 
ley's death  ;  an  account  of  the  proceedings  of  several 
public  bodies  in  relation  to  that  event ;  and  a  description 
of  the  funeral  ceremonies  with  which  the  remains  of  the 
departed  were  borne  to  the  tomb. 

The  volume  is  committed  to  the  friends  of  Horace 
Greeley,  who  comprise  so  large  a  portion  of  the  public, 
with  the  assurance  that  they  will  find  in  it  a  just,  although 
inadequate,  memorial  of  one  who  loved  the  people  in  his 
life,  and  was  faithful  to  them  till  his  death. 

Office  op  The  Tkibune, 
New  York,  February  loth,  1873. 


CONTENTS. 


The  For>T)EK  of  the  Tribune.  pabe 

AlvN'OrXCEMENT   OF  HIS  DeATH 7 

Moral  of  his  Death ; 17 

His  Last  Hours 20 

Resolutions  and  Proceedings  op  Various  Bodies — 

Meeting  of  The  Tribune  Trustees  22  |  The  Apollo  Hall  Democracy 47 

Meeting  of  the  Editorial  Staff. 2:3  1  The  Liberal  Club 47 

A  Tribute  from  the  Employes 23  |  The  Lincoln  Club 


The  Press  and  Mail  Rooms 26 

U.  S.  Congress — Proceedings  in  the  House 

of  Representatives 27 

New  York  Common  Council— Action  of  the 

Board  of  Aldermen 29 

Concurrence  of  the  Assistant  Aldermen. . .  30 

The  Brooklyn  Common  Council 32 

Long  Island  City  Common  Council 34 

Action  of  the  City  Council  of  St.  Louis. . .  35 

The  Troy  City  Authorities 36 

In  Poughkeepsie 36 

The  Constitution  Amendment  Committee 

at  Albany 37 

The  National  Democratic  Committee 39 

In  the  Senate  at  Albany 40  i  The  Westchester  County  Bar 

By  the  Presidential  Electors  of  New  York  41 

In  the  Massachusetts  Legislature 42 

The  Liberal  Republican  Gen'l  Committee.  43 

Kings  Co.  Liberal  Committee 44 

"        "    Democratic  General  Committee  43 

"■        "    Republican  General  Committee.  46 


The  Arcadian  Club 49 

The  Union  League  Club 50 

The  Herald  Club 51 

The  Lotos  Club 51 

The  JeiTerson  Club 52 

The  Tammany  Society 52 

The  New  York  Typographical  Society 53 

The  Young  Men's  Universalist  Associat'n.  56 

The  American  Institute 57 

The  Farmers"  Club 59 

The  Rural  Clnb 61 

The  Associated  Press 61 

The  American  Press  Association 62 

Typographical  Union.  No.  6 63 

64 

Board  of  Public  Instruction 66 

Temperance  Organizations 67 

The  United  Nationalities 68 

Honors  in  Vermont 63 

At  Elizabeth.  N.J 70 

In  the  Town  of  Greeley 70 


Voice  of  the  Pulpit  and  the  Press- 


Remarkable  Public  Recognition 71 

Mr.  Greeley's  Religions  Belief 73 

A  Great  Philanthropist 75 

An  Ingrain  Republican 77 

His  Life  a  Lesson  of  Hope 80 

The  Fruits  of  a  Good  Life 82 

A  Man  of  Power 83 

The  People's  Servant 83 

A  Touching  Personal  Tribute 84 

The  Great  Work  of  a  Noble  Life 88 

He  Fought  a  Good  Fight 93 

An  Honest,  Fearless  Man 95 

A  Man  Without  Enemies 96 

The  Loss  too  Great  to  be  Realized  Now. . .  97 

A  Nation's  Loss 98 

His  Place  in  History  yet  to  be  Fixed 99 

A  True  Hero 90 

Great  and  Good 100 

No  E'v-il  to  Live  after  him 102 


A  Leader  of  Men 103 

Honored  above  his  Associates 106 

One  of  the  best  Representatives  of  his 

Country 107 

A  Good  Samaritan 107 

The  First  Journalist  of  America 198 

The  greatest  Interest  excited  throughout 

the  Country 109 

The  Greatest  of  his  Time 109 

No  Stain  upon  his  Memory 110 

No  Speck  on  his  Character Ill 

The  Faithful  Servant  of  the  People Ill 

Most  Honorable  of  his  Time 112 

The  Foremost  Reformer 112 

Great  in  Public  Worth  and  Noble  in  Pri- 
vate Virtue 114 

Great  in  his  Generation 116 

The  Cromwell  of  his  Time 116 

Always  a  Sincere  Man 118 


VI 


CONTENTS. 


PAGE 

The  Best  Known  of  Americans 119 

A  Lover  of  his  Fellow-men 120 

A  Great-hearfed  Man 121 

A  Great-souled  Man 123 

Great  and  Generous 124 

The  Friend  of  the  Million 124 

nip  Greatest  Lesson 125 

A  Representative  American 125 

"  I  Know  that  my  Redeemer  Liveth  " 126 

He  has  just  begun  to  Live 127 

A  Good  Man  and  a  True  Patriot 130 

A  Nation  his  Mourner 131 

His  Place  Secure  on  the  Rolls  of  Fame 131 

The  Fukeral  Arrangements— 

Official  Programme  of  the  Common  Coun- 
cil  146 

Other  Preparations 149 

The  Closing  Ceremonies — 

The  Funeral 159 

Address  of  Henry  Ward  Beecher 164 

"  Dr.  E.  H.  Chapin 167 

Prayer  by  Dr.  Chapin 174 

From  the  Church  to  the  Cemetery 176 

At  Greenwood 178 

Distinguished  Mourners 178 

Press  and  Pulpit  Tributes — 

A  People's  Silent,  Heartfelt  Sorrow 193 

A  Grief  too  Great  for  Pomp  and  Pageantry  194 

Why  the  People  Loved  Him 195 

The  People  Mourn  because  they  Loved  him  197 

The  Apostle  of  Freedom 199 

A  Spectacle  Unparalled  in  History 201 

A  Noble  and  Good  Citizen 201 

His  Life  Complete  in  Greatness 202 

A  Moral  Giant 204 

Journalist,  Philanthropist,  Humanitarian.  205 
A    Great-hearted    Champion   of    Human 

Rights 205 

A  Veteran  Protectionist 206 

His  Name  his  only  Epitaph 206 

A  True  and  Exalted  Patriot 207 

A  Noble  Victim  has  been  Sacrificed 208 

The  Friend  of  Humanity 209 

A  Great  Loss  to  Journalism 210 

Best  Known  Man  of  his  Time 211 

A  Model  to  the  Youth  of  his  Country 211 


PACK 

One  of  his  Country's  Great  Men i:J3 

Intensely  a  Republican 134 

Best  Loved  of  Americans 135 

The  Noblest  American 135 

The  Foremost  in  Love  for  his  Fellow-men.  137 

The  Opponent  of  Human  Injustice  138 

His  Death  Hard  to  Realize 142 

Most  Prominent  of  Americans 142 

His  Life  Fruitful  of  Good 143 

One  of  the  Best  and  Greatest  Self-made 

Men 143 

Greater  than  his  Generation 144 

The  Most  Missed  by  his  Countrymen 145 


At  the  City  Hall 150 

In  the  Governor's  Room 151 

The  Multitude 154 


The  Last  Act 181 

The  People 181 

The  Police 184 

Public  Mourning 185 

The  Church 187 

The  Flowers 188 

The  Lesson  of  the  Day 190 


An  Inspired  Worker 212 

The  Chief  of  Journalists 213 

Always  in  Earnest 213 

He  Sowed  Good  Seed 214 

A  Blessing  to  his  Age 214 

Good  Friend  and  True  Hero 215 

Full  of  Great  and  Noble  Qualities 215 

The  Good  be  has  Done  will  Live  after 

him 216 

One  of  Nature's  Noblemen 217 

A  Great  and  Good  Man 217 

One  of  the  People's  Preachers 218 

The  Fruits  of  a  M'orthy  Life 222 

The  Injustice  of  Politics 223 

The  Master  Journalist 225 

Lessons  from  his  Life 226 

A  Great  Citizen 230 

A  Life  Better  than  Precepts 231 

Horace  Greeley  and  Journalism 2.32 

Mr.  Greeley  as  a  Man  of  Letters 234 


Letters  of  Sysipathy — 

A  Tribute  from  Bayard  Taylor 2.37  |  Rest  at  Last 243 

His  Example 234  |  An  Open  Letter  to  the  President  of  the  U.  S.  244 

From  the  Poets — 

Before  the  Burial 245  I  Gone 249 

A  Pure  and  Faithful  Soul 247    In  Memory 250 

The  Dead 249  |  A  Child  of  Genius 251 


Biography 254 


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THE  FOUNDER  OF  THE  TRIBUNE. 


THE    ANNOUNCEMENT    OF    HIS    DEATH. 

[From  the  Tribune,  Nov.  30,  1872.] 

In  the  unexpected  event  which  has  clothed  our  columns  in  weeds 
of  mourning,  a  profound  sorrow  has  fallen  not  only  upon  the  circles 
of  domestic  intimacy  and  friendly  attachment  in  which  the  face  of 
the  departed  had  shone  for  so  many  years  as  a  gracious  benediction, 
but  ujion  a  wide-spread  portion  of  the  American  people,  by  whom 
his  name  had  been  fondly  cherished  as  the  devoted  advocate  of 
generous  ideas,  and  the  earnest  prophet  of  the  advancement  of 
humanity.  Few  men  in  public  or  private  life  in  this  coimtry  had 
gathered  around  them  so  large  a  host  of  admiring  friends.  He  was 
the  object  not  only  of  profound  reverence,  but  of  tender  aifection. 
The  splendor  of  his  intellectual  powers  had  called  forth  enthusiastic 
homage,  even  from  those  who  differed  most  widely  from  him  in 
opinion ;  but  the  qualities  of  his  heart  had  inspired  an  almost  roman- 
tic love,  "  surpassing  the  love  of  women."  In  this  hour  of  softened 
remembrance,  how  many  eyes  will  be  wet  with  sorrow  as  they  read 
the  lines  that  announce  the  departure  of  that  noble  spirit  from  his 
wonted  sphere  of  grand  and  beneficient  activity ! 

For  some  time  past  the  health  of  Mr.  Greeley  had  been  seriously 
impaired,  but  not  to  so  great  a  degree  as  to  awaken  the  apprehen- 
sions of  his  friends.  His  labors  during  the  Presidential  canvass  had 
been  of  a  character  to  tax  his  intellectual  and  physical  energies  to 
the  utmost.  The  blended  wisdom  and  ability  which  he  exhibited  on 
this  occasion  elicited  admiration  even  from  his  opponents.  Abstain- 
ing, to  an  extent  that  is  rarely  witnessed  during  a  warmly-contested 
election,  from  personal  criticisms,  he  devoted  himself  to  a  lucid  expo- 
sition of  the  questions  at  issue,  and  the  earnest  advocacy  of  measures 
which  he  deemed  of  pregnant  import  to  the  peace  and  welfare  of 
the  country.     But  such  a  protracted  tension  of  the  faculties  was  too 


8  MEMORIAL   OF   HORACE   GREELEY. 

severe  a  strain  for  almost  any  human  constitution.  Long  before  the 
close  of  the  contest,  the  issue  of  Avhich  caused  him  no  disappoint 
ment,  his  watchful  friends  observed  certain  unusual  symptoms  of 
fatigue  and  languor.  They  were  sufficient,  perhaps,  to  suggest  anxiety 
but  certainly  not  to  produce  alarm.  The  elFects  of  political  defeat 
were  soon  absorbed  in  the  intensity  of  private  sorrow.  The  long- 
continued  illness  of  Mrs.  Greeley  terminated  in  her  death  a  short 
time  before  the  election.  For  many  days  and  nights  her  husband 
did  not  leave  her  sick  chamber,  except  at  short  intervals.  The  sight 
of  her  sufferings  exercised  a  painful  influence  on  his  nervous  system. 
Night  after  night  he  was  necessarily  deprived  of  sleep,  but  when  the 
opportunity  for  rest  was  restored,  he  was  unable  to  make  use  of  it. 
His  incessant  watch  around  the  pillow  of  his  dying  wife  had  Avell- 
nigh  destroyed  the  power  of  sleep.  Symptoms  of  extreme  nervous 
prostration  gradually  became  apparent,  his  appetite  was  gone,  the 
stomach  rejected  food,  the  free  use  of  his  faculties  was  disturbed, 
and  he  sank  with  a  rapidity  that,  even  to  those  who  watched  him 
closest,  seemed  startling. 

The  leading  events  in  the  life  of  Horace  Greeley  have  become  so 
familiar  to  the  public  from  the  popular  biographies  which  have 
attained  a  wide  circulation  among  the  people  of  this  country  that  we 
need  only  refresh  the  recollection  of  our  readers  by  a  rapid  sketch 
of  the  prominent  features  of  his  career.  Descended  from  the  Scotch- 
Irish  Presbyterians  who  settled  in  Londonderry,  New  Hampshire, 
about  fifty  years  before  the  Revolution,  he  was  born  in  Amherst,  in 
that  State,  February  3,  1811.  His  father  was  a  poor  and  hard-work- 
ing farmer,  struggling  to  pay  off  the  debt  incurred  in  the  purchase 
of  his  farm,  and  dependent  on  the  labor  of  his  han<^s  for  the  support 
of  his  family.  At  an  early  age  Horace  was  called  to  take  part  in 
the  incessant  toil  which  falls  to  the  lot  of  a  farmer's  boy  in  the 
country.  He  helped  his  father  in  planting  corn,  rode  horse  to  plow, 
hunted  the  insects  that  threatened  the  labors  of  the  spring,  drove 
the  cows  to  pasture,  and  watched  the  cattle  to  keep  them  out  of  the 
corn,  while  the  men  were  at  their  early  breakfast,  before  yoking  up 
for  the  day.  For  years  he  was  a  feeble,  sickly  child,  in  spite  of  his 
out-door  life,  often  under  medical  treatment,  and  unable  even  to 
watch  the  rain  through  the  closed  windcw:  without  a  violent  attack 
of  illness. 

The  mother  of  Horace  had  lost  her  two  former  children  just 
before  his  birth,  and  was  thus  led  to  regard  him  with  a  peculiar  ten- 


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ANNOUNCEMENT   OF   HIS   DEATH.  9. 

derness.  She  made  him  her  companion  and  confidant  almost  as  soon 
as  he  could  speak,  pouring  into  his  ear  an  abundant  store  of  ballads, 
stories,  anecdotes,  and  legends  of  the  olden  time.  He  learned  to 
read  at  her  knee,  and  among  his  earliest  remembrances  was  the  little 
spinning-wheel  at  which  she  sat  with  the  book  in  her  lap,  in  which  he 
was  taking  his  daily  lesson. 

When  about  three  years  old,  Horace  was  taken  by  his  maternal 
grandfather  to  Londonderry,  where  he  attended  school  for  the  first 
time.  He  was  usually  at  the  head  of  his  class,  although  one  of  the 
youngest  pupils,  a  bright,  active,  eager  boy,  and  a  general  favorite 
with  his  companions,  though  he  was  not  foiul  of  play,  and  took  no 
share  in  their  juvenile  sports.  He  was  in  his  fourth  year  when  he 
began  to  show  the  passion  for  reading  whicii  remained  with  him 
throughout  his  life.  He  Avould  often  lie  on  his  face  under  a  tree,  so 
completely  absorbed  in  his  book  as  to  forget  both  dinner-time  and 
sunset.  From  his  sixth  year  he  resided  chiefly  in  his  father's  hoxise. 
He  could  now  read  fluently,  spell  any  word  in  the  language,  had 
some  knowledge  of  geography,  and  a  little  of  arithmetic,  and  had 
read  the  Bible  through  from  Genesis  to  Revelation. 

In  the  winter  of  1821  the  father  of  Horace,  who  had  not  suc- 
ceeded in  gaining  a  livelihood  for  his  family,  determined  to  remoA-e 
from  New  Hampshire  and  take  up  his  abode  in  the  little  township 
of  Westhaven,  situated  in  the  north-western  corner  of  Vermont.  At 
this  time  Horace  was  not  quite  ten  years  old.  He  now  made  his 
first  acquaintance  with  genuine  poverty.  The  whole  stock  of  house- 
hold goods  amounted  to  only  a  trifling  sum.  The  father  was  glad  to 
work  at  chopping  wood  for  fifty  cents  a  day,  but  the  family  did  not 
run  in  debt  for  anything ;  and  though  reduced  to  the  class  of  day- 
laborers,  never  wanted  for  meat,  or  bread,  or  milk,  and  were  seldom 
without  a  little  money. 

Horace  had  been  in  the  habit  of  devouring  every  newspajjer  he 
could  get  hold  of  from  his  youngest  childhood,  and  had  early  resolved 
to  become  a  printer  if  he  could.  When  but  eleven  years  old,  hear- 
ing that  an  apprentice  was  wanted  in  the  newspaper  office  at  White- 
hall, he  accompanied  his  father  to  the  printer's,  in  hope  of  obtaining 
the  position,  but  was  rejected  on  account  of  his  extreme  youth.  He 
went  home  greatly  cast  down,  but  in  the  spring  of  1826  he  entered 
the  office  of  The  Northern  Spectator  in  East  Poultney,  Yt.,  as  an 
apprentice.  His  father,  meantime,  was  about  starting  for  the  West 
in  search  of  a  new  home,  and  finally  settled  in  the  forest  region  in 


10  MEMORIAL   OF   HORACE  GREELEY. 

the  northern  part  of  Erie  County,  Penn.,  on  the  border  of  the  State 
of  New  York.  Horace  diligently  applied  himself  to  learning  his 
trade,  of  which  he  soon  became  master  in  all  its  branches.  He 
remained  in  Poultney  a  little  more  than  four  years,  when,  after 
spending  a  short  time  at  his  father's  house  in  the  wilderness,  he 
obtained  employment  in  a  newspaper  office  in  Erie.  Here  he  made 
many  friends,  and  was  offered  a  partnership  in  the  business,  although 
only  a  young  man  of  twenty.  He  thought  best  to  decline  the  pro- 
posal, and  as  work  afterward  fell  off,  he  decided  to  take  a  fresh 
departure,  and  seek  his  fortune  in  the  great  metropolis.  After  pay- 
ing a  farewell  visit  at  his  father's,  and  dividing  with  him  his  earnings 
at  Erie,  with  twenty-five  dollars  in  his  pocket,  and  very  little  extra 
clothing  in  his  bundle,  he  set  his  face  toward  Xew  York. 

He  arrived  in  this  city  on  the  17th  of  August,  1831,  when  the 
midsummer  heat  was  at  its  height.  He  had  never  before  seen  a  city 
of  even  twenty  thousand  inhabitants,  nor  gazed  upon  a  sea-going 
vessel.  The  spectacle  of  so  many  square  miles  of  stately  buildings, 
with  the  furlongs  of  masts  and  yards,  aroused  a  feeling  of  astonish- 
ment and  wonder  akin  to  awe.  He  had  completed  his  twentieth 
year  the  February  before.  Tall,  slender,  and  ungainly,  with  ten  dol- 
lars in  his  pocket,  and  a  scanty  store  of  summer  raiment,  mostly  on 
his  back,  the  pale-faced  youth  did  not  command  a  cheerful  pros- 
pect of  immediate  success.  After  searching  in  vain  for  a  suitable 
boarding-house,  he  at  length  found  quarters  in  an  obscure  hostelry 
near  the  Xorth  River.  His  first  business  was  to  find  work  at  his 
trade.  Early  in  the  morning  he  began  to  ransack  the  city  in  search 
of  employment.  In  the  course  of  two  days  he  had  visited  more  than 
half  the  printing-offices  in  New  York  without  the  slightest  gleam 
of  success.  His  youthful  appearance  and  rustic  ways  were  not  in 
his  favor.  When  he  called  at  The  Journal  of  Commerce,  its  dis- 
tinguished editor,  Mr.  David  Hale,  frankly  told  him  that  he  believed 
him  to  be  a  runaway  apprentice  from  some  country  printing-office,  a 
presumption  which,  though  erroneous,  might,  under  the  circum- 
stances, be  deemed  excusable.  Thoroughly  wearied  with  his  two 
days'  disconsolate  quest,  he  resolved  to  leave  New  York  while  a  little 
money  still,  remained  in  his  pocket.  He  Avas  frightened  by  the  pros- 
pect of  the  alms-house  which  stared  hira  in  the  fiice,  and  wished  to 
make  his  escape  while  the  chance  was  yet  left.  In  the  evening, 
however,  he  made  the  acquaintance  of  some  young  Irishmen  who 
had  called  at  his  landlord's  in  their  stroll  about  town.     Upon  hear- 


ANISrOUN^CEMElSTT   OF   HIS  DEATH.  11 

ing  that  he  was  a  wandering  printer  in  pursuit  of  work,  they  at  once 
took  an  interest  in  his  affairs,  and  directed  him  to  a  place  where  he 
could  find  employment.  This  was  the  pi-inting-office  of  Mr.  John  T. 
West.  The  woi-k  was  so  difficult  that  no  printer  acquainted  in  the 
city  could  be  induced  to  accept  it.  It  was  the  composition  of  a 
miniature  New  Testament,  with  numerous  marginal  references,  and 
'in  a  curiously  intricate  style  of  typography.  No  other  compositor 
could  be  persuaded  to  work  on  the  book  for  more  than  two  or  three 
days,  and  Mr.  Greeley,  accordingly,  had  it  neai-ly  all  to  himself.  By 
diligent  type-setting  from  twelve  to  fourteen  hours  through  the  day, 
he  could  earn  at  most  not  over  six  dollars  a  week. 

After  several  changes,  which  did  not  greatly  improve  his  circum- 
stances, in  January,  1832,  Mr.  Greeley  formed  an  engagement  with 
The  Spirit  of  the  Times,  a  weekly  journal  devoted  to  sporting  in- 
telligence, and  edited  by  Mr.  William  T.  Porter.  The  foreman  of  the 
office  was  a  young  man  named  Francis  Story,  with  whom  Mr.  Greeley 
soon  contracted  an  intimate  friendship.  Urged  by  his  solicita- 
tions, he  consented  to  form  a  partnership  with  him  for  the  purpose  of 
conducting  the  business  of  job  printing.  They  soon  took  a  contract 
for  printing  a  cheap  daily  newspaper,  to  be  sold  about  the  streets,  at 
that  time  a  novel  idea.  The  first  number  of  the  paper,  which  was 
conducted  by  Dr.  H.  D.  Shepard,  was  issued  on  the  1st  of  January, 
1833,  It  fell  almost  dead-born  from  the  press.  The  day  was  one  of 
the  coldest  of  the  season,  and  the  streets  wei'e  obstructed  by  a  mass 
of  snow  which  had  fallen  the  night  before.  No  publicity  had  been 
given  to  the  enterprise.  The  editor  was  incompetent  to  his  task,  and 
in  less  than  a  month  the  whole  enterprise  came  to  an  untimely  end. 
The  jirinters  were  saved  from  bankruptcy  by  the  intervention  of  an 
eccentric  Englishman,  who  had  conceived  a  fancy  for  journalism,  and 
was  persuaded  to  purchase  the  wreck  of  the  attempted  Daily.  After 
a  few  issues  he  threw  up  the  experiment,  but  the  money  which  he 
had  paid  to  the  young  printers  preserved  them  from  further  embar- 
rassment. Meantime,  their  job  printing  business  continued  to  pros- 
per, there  was  no  "lack  of  work,  when  the  firm  was  suddenly  dis- 
solved by  the  death  of  Mr.  Story,  who  was  drowned  while  bathing 
in  the  East  River.  His  place,  however,  was  soon  supplied  by  the  ac- 
cession of  Mr.  Jonas  Winchester;  and  in  the  spring  of  1834,  with- 
out any  premonitory  flourish  of  trumpets,  the  two  young  printers 
issued  the  first  number  of  The  Neto-  YorJcer,  a  weekly  journal,  devoted 
to  literature,  political  intelligence,  and  general  news.     The  paper 


12  MEMORIAL   OF   HORACE    GREELEY. 

was  edited  hy  Mr.  Greeley,  -wliile  liis  jxirtner  took  charge  of  the 
general  business  of  the  printing-office.  For  the  seven  years  and  a 
half  of  its  existence,  The  New-  Yorker  sustained  a  high  reputation 
for  its  literary  excellence,  the  fairness  and  iinj^artiality  of  its  criti- 
cisms, the  accuracy  and  extent  of  its  intelligence,  and  the  elevated 
tone  of  its  general  discussions.  Its  columns  were  not  only  under 
the  immediate  supervision  of  Mr.  Greeley,  but  the  editorial  articles 
were  written,  and  the  admirable  selections  which  contributed  so 
much  to  its  celebrity  were,  for  the  most  part,  made  by  his  own  hand. 
The  paper  rose  from  scarcely  a  dozen  subsci'ibers  to  more  than  nine 
thousand,  although,  as  it  was  conducted  on  the  vicious  credit  system, 
and  consequently  lost  large  sums  by  bad  debts,  it  never  became  a 
pecuniary  success. 

In  1838,  Mr.  Greeley  became  the  editor  of  The  Jefferso)nan^ 
a  cheap  weekly  newspajter,  established  to  maintain  the  "Whig  as- 
cendency in  the  State  of  New  York  in  the  election  campaign  of  that 
season.  It  was  conducted  with  great  moderation  of  tone,  but  with 
signal  energy  and  efficiency.  It  attained  a  circulation  of  fifteen 
thousand  copies,  and  presented  an  admirable  example  of  successful 
political  discussion  without  passionate  heat  or  personal  invective. 

During  the  canvass  of  1840,  which  resulted  in  the  election  of 
Gen.  Harrison  to  the  Presidency,  Mr.  Greeley  conducted  T7ie  Log 
Cabin  from  May  to  November,  when  it  expired  by  its  own  limita- 
tion. In  about  a  month,  however,  its  publication  was  resumed  as  a 
family  political  paper,  and  continued  for  one  year,  when  it  was 
merged  in  The  WeeJchj  Tribune.  Of  The  Log  Cabin  Mr.  Greeley 
was  the  sole  editor  and  publisher.  Its  circulation  was  entirely  un- 
precedented at  that  time.  The  first  issue  consisted  of  thirty 
thousand  copies,  but  before  the  close  of  the  week  there  was  a  call 
for  ten  thousand,  more.  It  soon  ran  up  to  eighty  thousand,  and 
would  doubtless  have  attained  a  still  wider  circulation  had  the  pub- 
lisher possessed  the  present  facilities  for  printing  and  mailing. 

The  first  number  of  The  Daily  Tribune  was  issued  on  the  tenth 
of  April,  1841.  It  was  a  small  sheet,  and  sold  at  the  price  of  one 
cent  a  copy.  The  cardinal  idea  of  INIr.  Greeley  in  the  establishment 
of  The  Tribune  was  the  publication  of  a  journal  which  should  be 
equally  free  from  narrow  partisanship  and  timid  neutrality.  He  took 
liis  stand  on  the  independence  of  the  daily  press.  Avoiding  the 
fierce  intolerance  of  party  spirit,  on  the  one  hand,  and  a  tame  servility. 
to  public  opinion  on  the  other ;  he  aimed  to  hold  a  position  between 


ANNOUNCEMENT   OF  HIS   DEATH.  13 

those  extremes,  expressing  his  convictions  Avith  frankness  and  promp- 
titude on  all  public  measures,  but  not  avoiding  the  exposure  of 
errors  on  the  part  of  those  with  whom  in  the  main  he  agreed.  With 
these  views  Mr.  Greeley  had  completely  identified  his  name  with  the 
influence  of  this  journal.  To  secure  its  beneficent  power  was  tho 
chief  purpose  of  his  life.  Ko  prize,  in  his  estimation,  was  of  such 
precious  worth  as  its  efficient  action  in  aid  of  sound  and  lofty  prin- 
ciples, of  the  advancement  of  truth  in  religion  and  science,  of  the 
liberal  education,  the  material  prosperity,  and  the  social  happiness  of 
the  whole  American  people.  On  this  occasion  the  tender  pathos 
and  solemn  Avisdom  of  his  own  words  render  all  other  expressiods 
inappropriate.  "  Fame  is  a  vapor  ;  popularity  an  accident ;  riches 
take  wings  ;  the  only  earthly  certainity  is  oblivion ;  no  man  can 
foresee  what  a  day  may  bring  forth  ;  while  those  who  cheer  to-day 
will  often  curse  to-morrow;  and  yet  I  cherish  the  hope  that  the 
journal  I  projected  and  established  will  live  and  flourish  long  after  I 
shall  have  mouldered  into  forgotten  dust,  being  guided  by  a  larger 
wisdom,  a  more  unerring  sagacity  to  discern  the  right,  though  not 
by  a  more  unfaltering  readiness  to  embrace  and  defend  it  at  what- 
ever cost ;  and  that  the  stone  which  covers  my  ashes  may  bear  to 
future  eyes  the  still  intelligible  inscription,  '  Founder  of  The  Nexo 
York  Tribune.'''''' 

It  was  more  than  twenty  years  after  Mr.  Greeley  had  been  a 
constant  writer  for  the  newspaper  press  before  he  ventured  to  pub- 
lish a  volume.  This  was  his  "  Hints  toward  Reforms"  (1850),  con- 
sisting chiefly  of  lectures  and  addresses  which  he  had  delivered 
before  various  literary  associations  within  the  preceding  six  or  eight 
years.  They  comprise  the  maturest  thoughts  of  the  writer  on  the 
conditions  of  social  progress,  and  elucidate  his  convictions  on  the 
leading  topics  of  reform,  to  which  he  had  largely  devoted  the 
energies  of  his  life.  His  next  work,  "  Glances  at  Europe,"  relating 
some  of  his  experiences  in  foreign  travel,  was  published  in  1851, 
and  was  followed,  in  1859,  by  his  "  Overland  Journey  to  California," 
a  record  of  his  impressions  from  scenes  that  were  even  then  passing 
away,  and  which  have  now  for  the  most  part  given  place  to  new  and 
improved  relations.  A  work  of  more  elaborate  preparation  was  the 
"American  Conflict"  (1864),  relating  the  history  of  the  recent  civil 
war,  and  tracing  its  causes  to  the  influence  of  slavery  on  the  politics 
of  the  country.  The  point  of  view  from  which  this  Avork  is  Avritten 
was  the  conviction  of  the   divine   government   of  the  Avorld  by 


14  MEMOKIAL   OF   HORACE    GKEELEY. 

immutable  moral  laws,  and  of  the  certainty  of  retribution  as  conse- 
quent upon  every  compromise  with  evil.  It  is  distinguished  for  its 
fullness  of  detail,  the  fairness  of  its  judgments,  and  its  acute  analy- 
sis of  the  causes  of  })olitical  events.  Among  his  writings,  the  brief 
volume  on  the  principles  of  political  economy,  of  which  he  was 
always  the  ardent  advocate,  and  the  narrative  of  his  personal  expe- 
rience as  a  practical  farmer,  have  met  with  a  large  share  of  popular 
favor,  and  enhanced  his  influence  among  the  intelligent  reading 
classes.  His  most  interesting  work  is  doubtless  the  "  Recollections 
of  a  Busy  Life"  (18C9),  in  which,  with  inimitable  naivete,  he  relates 
the  successive  steps  by  which  he  advanced  from  the  obscurity  of  a 
country  printing-office  to  his  recent  position  among  the  eminent  men 
of  the  ao^e. 

The  character  of  Mr.  Greeley  has  been  held  too  long  in  a  con- 
spicuous light  before  the  public  to  requii'e  any  formal  or  elaborate 
analysis  in  this  place.  No  American  citizen  was  probably  known  to 
a  greater  number  of  persons.  Although  the  recipient  of  few  public 
offices,  his  life  was  emphatically  a  public  one.  One  of  the  common 
people  by  birth  and  education  himself,  he  lived  with  the  people,  and 
before  the  people.  One  of  his  greatest  delights  was  in  popular  dis- 
cussion. He  never  shrunk  from  argument,  and  loved  to  measure 
the  minds  of  other  men  with  his  own.  He  had  no  concealment,  no 
disguises,  no  subterfuges ;  he  carried  his  heart  upon  his  lips ;  his 
thoughts  and  feelings  must  have  vent ;  and  so  transparent  was  his 
nature,  that  in  the  utterance  of  his  convictions  he  did  not  always 
pay  sufficient  court  to  the  conventional  proprieties  of  time  and  place. 
He  was  a  man  of  wide,  if  not  intimate,  companionship.  He  was  at 
home  in  the  society  of  a  great  variety  of  minds.  No  diversities  of 
culture,  or  taste,  or  even  of  opinion,  impaired  the  cordiality  of  his 
friendships.  His  closest  ties  were  often  with  men  whose  pursuits  he 
did  not  share,  whose  principles  he  did,  not  adopt,  whose  habits  of 
thought,  perhaps,  he  did  not  even  fully  comprehend,  but  over  whom 
he  exerted  a  powerful  attraction  by  the  subtile  magnetism  of  his 
character.  His  own  sympathies  were  rather  with  the  great  masses 
of  humanity,  than  with  the  peculiar  traits  that  constitute  the 
essence  of  personality.  He  was  more  apt  to  look  at  men  in  the 
light  of  effiL'Ctive  forces,  grouping  them  according  to  their  respective 
energies,  than  to  study  the  expression  of  the  inner  and  indi>  idual 
qualities  which  distinguish  them  from  one  another.  He  habitually 
asked  what  a  j)erson  could  do,  i-ather  than  what  he  was,  estimating 


AN]SrOUN"CEMENT   OF   HIS   DEATH.  15 

the  man  less  by  his  intrinsic  being  than  his  incidental  activity.  His 
own  power  of  accomplishment  was  wonderful,  No  weight  of  re- 
sponsibility, or  magnitude  of  service,  was  ever  felt  as  a  burden.  He 
never  hesitated  to  do  the  work  of  two  men  with  his  single  hand, 
nor  to  crowd  the  work  of  two  days  into  one.  Always  he  appeared 
insensible  to  weariness,  without  the  consciousness  of  satiety  in  labor, 
or  exhaustion  of  force.  If  at  times  he  needed  change,  he  never 
showed  the  need  of  rest.  The  variety  of  his  undertakings  was  as  re- 
markable as  the  promptness  of  his  performance.  He  seldom,  if 
ever,  failed  to  keep  an  appointment,  or  to  justify  a  promise. 

Mr.  Greeley  combined  a  singular  hospitality  to  new  ideas  with  a 
profound  attachment  to  conservative  principles.  He  had  no  passion 
for  innovation.  He  sought  no  change  for  the  sake  of  change.  He 
clung  tenaciously  to  an  opinion  which  he  had  once  adopted,  and 
rarely  surrendered  in  his  manhood  a  conviction  of  his  youth. 
Both  his  religious  and  political  creeds  were  formed  at  an  early  age, 
and  no  essential  principle  of  either  was  renounced  in  after  life. 
Though  generally  regarded  as  a  radical  thinker,  he  had  no  tendency 
to  revolutionary  or  destructive  measures.  Extremes  of  opinion,  or 
of  practice,  found  no  favor  in  his  eyes.  He  cherished  a  wholesome 
distrust  of  the  fantastic  love  of  novelty  which  makes  no  account  of 
ancient  landmarks,  or  of  ancient  prejudices.  However  glittering 
the  promises  of  the  future,  he  firmly  held  his  anchorage  in  the  past. 
At  the  same  time,  he  gave  a  courteous  greeting  to  the  new  light 
which  dawned  npon  the  intellectual  horizon.  He  never  made  his 
own  experience  the  measure  of  possibility.  He  listened  to  every 
scheme  which  was  held  forth  in  the  interests  of  humanity.  He 
treated  their  advocates  with  kindness,  if  not  always  with  sympathy, 
and  challenged  for  their  pretensions  a  generous  hearing.  Every  im- 
provement in  legislation,  in  the  order  of  civil  society,  in  the  arrange- 
ments of  labor  and  the  relations  of  industry,  in  the  researches  of 
science  and  the  education  of  the  young,  v  was  welcomed  with 
cordiality,  and  examined  with  fairness.  His  faith  in  the  future  was 
not  dimmed  by  his  reverence  for  the  past.  Nor  was  his  confidence 
in  the  progress  of  the  human  race  impaired  by  any  tincture  of  per- 
sonal selfishness.  Scarcely  any  man  of  his  culture  and  genuine 
refinement  of  mind  had  a  less  active  sense  of  individual  comfort. 
But  what  he  did  not  seek  for  himself,  he  sought  for  his  kind.  He 
keenly  felt  for  the  pom-  the  infirm,  the  ignorant,  the  forsaken,  the 
helpless,  and  though  often  abrupt  in  his  expressions,  and  not  con- 


16  MEMORIAL   OF   HORACE   GREELEY. 

ciliatory  to  excess  in  his  manners,  he  will  be  set  down  by  the  record- 
ing angel  as  "  one  who  loved  his  fellow-men." 

Prominent  as  were  the  relations  of  Mr.  Greeley  with  the  pub- 
lic, no  one  can  fully  comprehend  his  character  without  following 
him  into  the  retirements  of  private  and  domestic  life.  He  was  a 
man  of  singular  purity  of  nature.  No  foul  word  or  unseemly  jest 
was  ever  permitted  to  escape  his  lips.  He  cherished  the  strongest 
attachment  to  the  ties  of  family  and  home.  No  man  had  a  keener 
sense  of  the  power  of  kindred  blood.  His  domestic  tastes  had  the 
force  of  a  passionate  instinct.  His  devotion  to  his  invalid  wife, 
through  years  of  protracted  suiFering,  exhibited  the  character  of  a 
religious  sentiment.  The  innate  poetry  of  his  nature  was  concen- 
trated upon  his  children.  His  love  for  the  "  glorious  boy,"  whose 
early  death  was  a  perpetual  grief,  seemed  less  like  a  reality  than  a 
romance.  This  child,  whose  radiant  beauty  was  never  equalled  in 
"  the  sunshine  of  picture,"  can  not  be  forgotten  in  any  remembrance 
of  the  father.  His  sweet  and  gracious  nature  was  no  less  attractive 
than  his  personal  loveliness.  His  sudden  death,  nearly  twenty-five 
years  ago,  left  a  feeling  of  loneliness  and  desolation  upon  the  heart 
of  Ml".  Greeley,  for  which  the  lapse  of  years  brought  no  assuaging 
influence.  "  "When,  at  length,"  he  writes  of  himself,  "  the  struggle 
ended  with  his  last  breath,  and  even  his  mother  was  convinced  that 
his  eyes  would  never  again  open  upon  the  scenes  of  this  world,  I 
knew  that  the  summer  of  my  life  was  over,  that  the  chill  breath  of 
its  autumn  was  at  hand,  and  that  my  future  course  must  be  along 
the  down-hill  of  life." 

In  general  society  Mr.  Greeley  was  always  himself,  frank,  com- 
municative, abounding  in  conversation,  though  with  an  occasional 
appearance  of  reserve,  growing  out  of  a  certain  absent-mindedness 
in  which  his  preoccupied  mind  sometimes  tempted  him  to  indulge, 
the  wisdom  of  his  speech  seasoned  with  frequent  dashes  of  humor, 
and  his  whole  bearing  marked  by  a  genial  good-nature  rather  than 
any  pedantic  adherence  to  the  formalities  of  etiquette.  But  if  not 
addicted  to  artificial  courtesies,  he  displayed  a  sweetness  of  spirit 
and  gentleness  of  demeanor  in  perfect  unison  with  the  juvenile  })lay 
of  his  features  and  the  beautiful  innocence  of  his  countenance,  which 
disarmed  the  severest  prejudices  and  inspired  a  feeling  almost  akin 
to  idolatry  among  those  who  knew  him  best. 

In  spite  of  his  absorption  in  politics,  literature,  and  secular  cares, 
Mr.  Greeley  was  a  man  of  earnest  religious  convictions ;  and  although 


MORAL   OF  HIS   DEATH.  17 

without  any  trace  of  superstition  in  feeling,  or  asceticism  in  con- 
duct, cherished  a  no  less  ardent  devotion  to  his  religious  faith  than 
if  he  habitually  wore  a  cassock  or  a  cowl.  When  he  was  only  ten 
years  old,  he  was  led  by  a  passage  in  ancient  history  to  reflection 
on  the  character  of  the  Divine  Government.  In  the  course  of  his 
childish  speculations,  he  became  convinced  of  the  essential  benignity 
of  the  Divine  character.  At  that  time  he  had  never  seen  one  who 
called  himself  a  Universalist,  nor  had  read  a  page  by  any  writer  of 
that  denomination.  Soon  afterward,  however,  he  became  familiar 
with  the  course  of  argument  made  use  of  by  the  advocates  of  the 
system.  His  previous  convictions  were  strengthened  by  their  rea- 
sonings, and,  with  the  diligent  perusal  of  the  Scriptures,  he  was 
confirmed  in  the  faith  that  all  suffering  is  a  means  of  discipline,  and 
will  finally  result  in  universal  holiness  and  consequent  happiness. 
Throughout  his  life  he  was  a  constant  attendant  on  public  worship, 
and  numbered  many  of  the  ministers  of  the  gospel  among  his 
warmest  friends.  In  matters  of  religion  he  lived  in  charity  with 
all  mankind.  He  never  forced  his  creed  upon  the  attention  of 
others,  nor  received  his  articles  of  faith  from  human  dictation.  In- 
timate with  the  highest  dignitaries  of  the  Church,  from  the  Cath- 
olic prelate  to  the  Methodist  bishop,  he  preserved  his  freedom  of 
belief  and  his  independence  of  mind. 

As  we  stand  around  the  cold  remains  of  the  friend  whose  face 
will  be  no  more  seen  in  the  places  which  he  filled  with  fresh  and 
glowing  life,  the  sounds  of  party  contention  fade  away  in  the  silence 
of  death.  The  spirit  of  strife  is  hushed.  The  long  warfare  of  the 
departed  is  brought  to  an  end.  He  has  found  repose  in  the  stillness 
of  the  grave,  and  no  lingering  bitterness  must  disturb  the  depth  of 
his  peace,  or  impair  the  sweet  memory  of  his  virtues. 


THE  MORAL   OF  HIS  DEATH. 

[From  the  Tribune,  Nov.  30,  1872.] 
The  melancholy  announcement  of  the  death  of  the  editor  and 
founder  of  The  Tribune,  though  for  a  few  days  his  family  and  in- 
timate friends  have  admitted  to  themselves  its  possibility,  falls  upon 
us  all  with  the  shock  of  sudden  calamity.  He  had  reached,  indeed, 
a  ripe  old  age,  but  time  had  not  laid  its  withering  touch  upon  him ; 
his  splendid  constitution  easily  bore  the  strain  of  enormous  labor ; 
his  mind  was  as  fresh,  and  strong,  and  suggestive  as  in  the  prime 

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18  MEMORIAL   OF   HORACE   GREELEY. 

of  life  ;  his  generous  impulses  were  unchilled  by  disheartening  ex- 
perience. Through  the  trying  campaign  which  has  just  closed,  his 
physical  vigor,  his  tact,  his  intellectual  activity,  surprised  even  those 
who  knew  him  best,  and  seemed  to  promise  many  years  of  useful- 
ness. Looking  at  what  he  might  yet  have  accomplished,  we  won- 
der at  the  mysterious  dispensation  of  Providence  that  takes  him 
away  while  his  faculties  are  still  unwearied.  Remembering  what 
he  has  already  done,  we  stand  with  bowed  heads  beside  the  open 
grave  and  thank  the  Good  Master  who  has  permitted  his  servant  to 
complete  so  much  of  his  great  labor,  and  to  reap  so  many  of  its 
fruits. 

For,  after  all,  though  detraction  and  disappointment  and  domes- 
tic sorrow  may  have  clouded  his  last  days,  this  was  the  happy  end- 
ing of  a  noble  career.  "My  life,"  said  he,  some  years  ago, ."has 
been  busy  and  anxious,  but  not  joyless.  Whether  it  shall  be  pro- 
longed few  or  more  years,  I  am  grateful  that  it  has  endured  so  long, 
and  that  it  has  abounded  in  opportunities  for  good  not  wholly  un- 
improved, and  in  experiences  of  the  nobler  as  well  as  the  baser  im- 
pulses of  human  nature."  The  record  of  what  he  has  done  for  the 
industry,  the  education,  the  general  culture,  and  the  social  improve- 
ment of  his  country,  as  well  as  the  story  of  what  he  has  accom- 
plished in  guiding  its  political  destinies,  we  may  leave  to  an  impar- 
tial posterity.  It  is  too  soon,  perhaps,  to  judge  correctly  how  great 
has  been  his  share  in  molding  the  public  sentiment  which  dictates 
laws,  chooses  Presidents,  creates  armies,  and  controls  public  events ; 
but  it  is  certain  that  no  history  of  the  most  critical  period  in  our 
national  life  can  ever  be  written  in  which  Horace  Greeley  shall  not 
be  a  conspicuous  figure.  Enormous  as  his  personal  influence  Avas  in 
politics  for  the  better  part  of  a  generation,  it  was  not  upon  this  that, 
in  his  latter  years,  he  looked  back  with  the  greatest  satisfoction. 
That  he  had  shaped  the  course  of  administrations,  directed  the 
purposes  of  parties,  created  a  great  organ  of  opinion,  taught  states- 
men to  sit  at  his  feet  and  Senates  to  listen  for  his  approval — these 
were  not  the  tests  by  which  he  would  have  measured  his  success. 
The  vanity  of  wealth,  the  unreality  of  power,  the  worthlessness  of 
popular  renown — he  estimated  them  all  at  their  true  value.  The 
noblest  career  in  his  eyes  was  that  which  is  given  up  to  others' 
Avants.  The  successful  life  was  that  which  is  worn  out  in  conflict 
with  wrong  and  woe.  The  only  ambition  worth  following  was  the  am- 
bition to  alleviate  human  misery,  and  leave  the  world  a  little  better 


MORAL   OF  niS   DEATH.  19 

than  he  found  it.  That  he  had  done  this  was  the  consolation  which 
brightened  his  last  days,  and  assured  him  he  had  not  lived  in  vain. 

He  was  a  young  man  when  he  took  his  stand  by  the  suffering 
and  oppressed.  He  was  old  when  he  saw  the  downfall  of  the  bar- 
barism against  which  he  had  battled  for  a  quarter  of  a  century. 
Honors  and  abuse,  prosperity  and  reverses,  were  his  by  turn  in  this 
long  contest,  but  his  sturdy  arm  never  faltered  and  his  heart  never 
failed.  He  took  patiently  the  buffetings  of  adverse  fortune,  and 
rose  with  sublime  courage  above  disaster ;  for  there  was  no  selfish 
impulse  in  his  labor,  and  he  knew  that,  though  he  spent  himself,  the 
work  must  go  on  to  its  final  triumph.  When  the  victory  came,  he 
might  haA'e  held  up  his  hands  and  cried  out  with  Simeon:  "Lord, 
now  lettest  thou  thy  servant  depart  in  peace."  But  it  was  granted 
him  to  see  even  more  than  the  destinxction  of  slavery.  He  was  to 
impi'ess  upon  the  policy  of  the  renewed  and  purified  Union  some- 
thing of  his  own  generous  and  elevated  character,  to  give  an  im- 
petus to  principles  destined  to  work  grand  reforms  at  no  distant 
time,  to  preach  the  political  gospel  of  brotherhood  and  good-will, 
and  to  win,  before  he  left  this  world,  the  esteem  of  thousands  who 
had  been  his  bitterest  enemies.  With  no  vain  estimate  of  his  per- 
sonal share  in  the  progress  of  the  past  thirty  years,  he  realized  how 
much  had  been  accomplished  by  the  warfare  in  which  he  had  taken 
so  great  a  part ;  he  trusted  that  the  agencies  which  he  had  founded 
would  perpetuate  his  influence  after  he  had  passed  away.  Con- 
scious, as  in  his  seci'et  heart  he  must  have  been,  that  when  he  was 
in  his  grave  his  name  would  prompt  men  to  kindly  actions  and  to 
noble  thoughts,  would  moisten  eyes  that  never  saw  him,  and  bring 
a  quiver  to  strange  lips,  Horace  Greeley  was  blessed  in  his  old  age 
with  the  reward  of  his  fidelity  and  self-sacrifice.  "  So,"  he  wrote, 
"  looking  calmly  yet  humbly  for  that  close  of  my  mortal  career 
which  can  not  be  far  distant,  I  reverently  thank  God  for  the  bless- 
ings vouchsafed  me  in  the  past,  and,  with  an  awe  that  is  not  fear, 
and  a  consciousness  of  demerit  which  does  not  exclude  hope,  await 
the  opening  before  my  steps  of  the  gates  of  the  eternal  world." 

It  is  not  for  us,  in  the  first  hour  of  our  loss,  to  dwell  long,  here, 
upon  his  character,  or  catalogue  his  virtues.  To  his  associates  and 
disciples  the  bereavement  is  a  grief  too  personal  to  leave  them  heart 
for  making  eloquent  phrases.  Although  for  several  months  we  have 
missed  the  inspiration  of  his  presence  and  the  guidance  of  his  wise 
counsel,  his  spirit  has  never  ceased  to  animate  those  chosen  to  con- 


20  MEMORIAL   OF   HORACE  GREELEY. 

tmue  his  work,  and  the  close  bond  of  sympathy  between  the  chief 
and  his  assistants  has  never  been  broken.  To  those  of  us  who  have 
labored  with  him  longest  and  known  him  best,  it  has  been  a  bond 
not  only  of  sympathy,  but  of  tried  affection.  We  leave  his  praises 
to  the  poor  whom  he  succored,  to  the  lowly  whom  he  lifted  up,  to 
the  slave  whose  back  he  saved  from  the  lash,  to  the  oppressed 
whose  wrongs  he  made  his  own. 


MR.  GREELEY'S  LAST  HOURS. 

[From  (he  Tribune,  Nov.  30,  1872.] 

So  far  as  any  of  his  associates  knew,  Mr.  Greeley  was  in  al- 
most as  good  health  as  usual  when,  on  the  day  after  the  election,  he 
wrote  the  card  announcing  liis  resumption  of  the  editorial  charge  of 
The  Tribune.  His  sleeplessness  was  known  to  have  become  greatly 
worse,  but  for  years  he  had  suffered  more  gr  less  from  the  same  dif- 
ficulty. It  is  now  clear  that  sufficient  allowance  had  not  been  made 
for  the  intense  strain  upon  him  tliroughout  the  summer,  and  speci- 
ally during  the  last  month  of  his  wife's  illness.  It  soon  became  evi- 
dent that  his  strength  was  unequal  to  the  hard  task  to  which  he  set 
himself.  He  wrote  only  five  or  six  careful  articles,  no  one  of  them 
half  a  column  in  length.  The  most  notable,  perhaps,  was  that  en- 
titled "  Conclusions,"  wherein  he  summed  up  his  vicAVS  of  the  can- 
vass. In  all  he  furnished  lesR  than  four  and  a  half  columns  after  his 
return,  contributing  to  only  five  issues  of  the  paper.  Two  or  three 
times  he  handed  his  personal  representative  short  articles  saying, 
"  There  is  an  idea  Avorth  using,  but  I  haven't  felt  able  to  work  it  out 
properly.     You  had  better  put  it  in  shape." 

At  last,  on  Tuesday,  the  12th  inst.,  he  abandoned  the  effort  to 
visit  the  office  regularly,  and  sent  for  Dr.  Krackowitzer,  family  phy- 
Bician  for  Mr.  A.  J.  Johnson,  the  friend  with  Avhom  he  was  a  guest, 
and  in  whose  house  his  wife  had  died.  Every  effort  was  made  to  in- 
duce sleep,  but  he  grew  steadily  worse,  until  it  became  evident  that 
his  case  was  critical.  Dr.  Geo.  C.  S.  Choate  and  others  were  then 
called  in  consultation,  and  finally  it  was  decided  to  take  him  to  Dr. 
Choate's  residence,  two  ov  three  miles  distant  from  Mr.  Greeley's  own 
country  home  at  Chappaqua.  Here  he  received  the  unintermitting 
attention  of  Dr.  Choate ;  and  here  Dr.  Brown-Scquard,  Dr.  Brown, 
and  others  were  also  called  in  consultation.  The  insomnia  had  de- 
veloped intD  inflammation  of  the  outer  membrane  of  the  brain,  and 


HIS   LAST  IIOUES.  21 

under  this  the  venei-ated  patient  rapidly  sank.  At  times  he  was 
delirious  ;  at  othei-  times  as  clear-headed  as  ever.  He  lost  flesh  and 
strength  with  stai-tling  rapidity ;  and  in  a  few  days  the  possibility 
of  his  speedy  death  forced  itself  into  unwilling  recognition.  It  was 
not,  however,  until  Thursday  last  that  his  associates  and  family 
brought  themselves  to  admit  it,  and  even  then  they  still  clung  to 
their  faith  in  the  vigor  of  his  constitution. 

On  Wednesday  night  he  failed  very  rapidly.  On  Thursday  after- 
noon and  evening  he  seemed  somewhat  easier.  During  Thursday 
night  he  slept  very  uneasily,  muttering  occasionally,  and  frequently 
raising  his  right  hand.  Toward  morning  he  Avas  more  quiet,  and 
between  8  and  9  o'clock  fell  into  a  nearly  unconscious  condition, 
which  continued,  with  intervals,  through  the  day.  His  extremities 
were  cold  all  day,  and  there  was  no  pulse  at  the  wrist.  The  action 
of  the  heart  was  intermittent,  and  was  constantly  diminishing  in 
force.  He  had  not  asked  for  water  or  been  willing  to  drink  it  since 
his  stay  at  Dr.  Choate's,  but  during  Friday  he  asked  for  it  frequent- 
ly. On  the  Avhole,  he  suffered  little,  and  seemed  to  have  no  more 
than  the  ordinai-y  restlessness  which  accompanies  the  last  stage  of 
disease.  He  made  occasional  exclamations,  but  many  of  them,  in 
consequence  of  his  extreme  weakness  and  apparent  inability  to  finish 
what  he  began,  were  unintelligible.  About  noon,  however,  he  said 
quite  distinctly  and  with  some  force,  "  I  know  that  my  Redeemer 
liveth."  During  the  day  he  recognized  various  people,  his  daughter 
many  times,  the  members  of  his  household  at  Chappaqua,  Mr.  John 
R.  Stuart,  and  Mr.  Reid.  Up  to  within  half  an  hour  of  the  end  he 
occasionally  manifested  in  various  ways  his  consciousness  of  what 
was  going  on  around  him,  and  even  answered  in  monosyllables,  and 
intelligently,  questions  addressed  to  him.  About  half-past  three  he 
said,  very  distinctly,  "  It  is  done ;"  and,  beyond  Yes  or  No  in  an- 
swer to  questions,  this  was  his  last  utterance. 

His  younger  daughter,  Gabrielle,  was  with  him  through  Thurs- 
day evening.  Throughout  Friday  the  elder  daughter,  Ida,  was 
in  constant  attendance,  as  she  had  been  during  the  whole  of  his  ill- 
ness, and  of  Mrs.  Greeley's  before  him.  Other  members  of  his 
Chappaqua  household  were  present,  with  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Stuart  and 
a  few  other  friends.  Nothing  that  science  or  affection  cculd  sug- 
gest was  wanting  to  ease  the  last  hours.  The  wintry  night  had 
fairly  set  in,  when  the  inevitable  hour  came.  Without,  sleighs  were 
running  to  and  fro,  bearing  to  Chappaqua,  the  nearest  telegraph 


22  MEMORIAL   OF  HORACE   GREELEY. 

Station,  the  latest  bulletins  which  the  thousands  of  anxious  hearts  in 
the  great  city,  near-by,  kept  demanding.  Witliin,  the  daughter  and 
a  few  others  stood  near  the  dying  man;  in  the  adjoining  room  sat 
one  or  two  more  friends  and  the  physician.  At  ten  minutes  before 
7  o'clock  the  watchers  drew  back  in  reverent  stillness  from  the  bed- 
side. The  great  Editor  was  gone, — "  in  peace  after  so  many  strug- 
gles ;  in  honor  after  so  much  obloquy." 


RESOLUTIOXS  AND  PROCEEDINGS  OF   VARIOUS 
BODIES. 

MEETING    OF    THE    TRIBUNE   TRUSTEES. 

A  meeting  of  the  Trustees  of  The  Tribune  was  held  on  Satur- 
day, Nov.  30th,  at  Avhich  the  following  resolutions  were  adopted: 

Besolved,  That  the  late  associates  of  Horace  Greclc}'  in  the  management 
and  publication  of  The  Keio  York  Tribune,  recall  with  liveliest  gratitude  his 
eminent  services  in  the  establishment  and  conduct  of  that  journal,  the  various 
and  ample  knowledge  which  he  brought  to  the  illustration  of  its  columns,  the 
profound  wisdom  with  which  he  discussed  the  political  questions  of  the  passing 
day,  the  never-failing  sagacity  and  tact  witli  which  he  commented  on  public 
events,  the  enlightened  zeal  with  which  he  devoted  himself  to  the  advocacy 
of  every  noble  and  worthy  cause,  the  heartfelt  sympathy  Avith  which  he  es- 
poused the  interests  of  the  poor  and  oppressed,  the  ardent  patriotism  with 
which  he  labored  for  the  prosperity  of  the  whole  country,  without  reference  to 
sectional  or  party  claims,  and  the  generous  hospitalitj'  with  which  he  wel- 
comed the  highest  progressive  ideas  in  science,  literature,  and  social  philos- 
ophy. 

Resolved,  That  in  the  personal  character  of  their  late  beloved  chief  they 
recognize  a  shining  example  of  the  manly  virtues,  integrity  incorrupt,  fidelity 
unshaken,  immaculate  honor,  purity  without  a  stain,  and  the  rare  self-forget- 
fulness  which  lost  sight  of  personal  interests  in  zeal  for  the  cause  of  humanity. 

Jiesolved,  That  their  profound  grief  on  occasion  of  his  death  finds  a  tender 
solace  in  the  remembrance  of  his  illustrious  life. 

ResoUed,  That,  although  deprived  of  the  light  and  counsels  of  their  chief, 
they  are  not  left  without  heart  or  hope  by  the  bereavement,  and  that  they 
address  themselves  with  cheerful  courage  and  unshrinking  energy  to  the  high 
and  inspiring  duties  before  them,  erecting  the  noblest  monument  to  his  memory 
in  the  columns  of  The  Tribune  which  he  so  fondly  loved,  by  striving  to  make 
it  a  still  more  efficient  representative  of  the  great  humanitary  ideas  to  which 
his  life  was  devoted. 

Resolved,  That  we  tender  our  most  affectionate  sympathies  to  the  family  of 
the  departed  in  the  irreparable  loss  which  we  have  sustained  in  common. 


PROCEEDINGS   OF   VARIOUS   BODIES.  23 

MEETING    OF    THE    EDITORIAL    STAFF. 

A  meeting  of  the  members  of  all  departments  of  the  editorial 
staff  of  The  Tribune  was  held  on  Sunday,  Dec.  1.  On  motion  of 
J.  R.  G.  Hassard,  Charles  T.  Congdon  was  chosen  Chairman,  and 
Noah  Brooks  Secretary.  Mr.  Congdon  referred  in  a  feeling  manner 
to  the  loss  The  Tribune  had  sustained  in  the  death  of  its  founder. 
A  committee  appointed  to  prepare  suitable  resolutions  reported  the 
following,  which  were  adopted  : 

^Yllereas,  It  has  pleased  God  in  His  Providence  to  remove  from  the  field  of 
his  useful  labors,  Horace  Greeley ; 

Resolved,  That  in  the  death  of  our  great  Chief,  every  attribute  of  perfect 
journalism  and  everjr  quality  of  uoble  manhood  have  received  wounds,  since 
Horace  Greeley  stood  at  the  head  of  the  editorial  profession  in  the  world,  since 
the  variety,  clearness,  logic,  and  magnetism  of  his  writings  were  unequaled, 
since  his  humanity,  his  generosity,  and  his  sympathy  were  without  limit. 

Resolved,  That  we  feel  it  a  privilege  and  an  honor  to  have  served  under  the 
great  Master  of  our  profession  ;  to  have  lived  under  the  daily  example  of  his 
methods ;  his  conscientious  work,  his  untiring  industry,  and  his  complete 
devotion  to  what  he  deemed  to  be  the  sacred  duty  of  making  every  issue  of 
The  Tribune  as  perfect  as  possible. 

Resolved,  That  beside  the  bier  of  the  great  dead  we  consecrate  ourselves 
anew  to  the  virtues  -which  won  him  success  and  imperishable  fame — devotion 
to  the  general  good  ;  sympathj^  with  the  poor  and  the  weak  ;  maintenance  of 
the  right ;  hatred  of  wrong ;  love  of  hard  work ;  honor  of  honest  industry,  and 
an  honest  artist's  love  of  a  well-made  newspaper. 

Resolved,  That  the  people  of  the  United  States  owe  lasting  gratitude  to  the 
Founder  of  The  Tribune  for  having,  as  a  popular  and  partisan  leader,  placed 
the  discussion  of  political  questions  and  the  development  of  social  ideas  on  the 
ground  of  conscience,  irrespective  of  mere  expediency,  and  for  having  set  the 
rights  and  dignity  of  manhood  above  all  other  considerations. 

Resolved,  That  we  extend  to  the  members  of  our  profession  this  expression 
of  our  appreciation  of  the  afflicting  loss  which  journalism  has  sustained  in  the 
death  of  Horace  Greeley ;  and  we  especially  commend  to  the  advancing  gen- 
eration of  the  Republic  his  shining  example,  which  nobly  illustrates  what  may 
be  accomplished  for  humanity  by  well-directed  eflfort  inspired  by  beneficent 
ideas  and  the  loftiest  sentiments. 

Resolved,  That  in  this  their  doubly  bitter  bereavement,  we  tenderly  sympa- 
thize with  the  orphans  of  our  departed  Chief;  and  that  we  will  make  their 
grief  our  own,  and  will  surround  them  with  our  sj'nipathy  and  help  them  to 
bear  a  loss  which,  while  grievous  to  them,  is  heavy  to  us  and  costly  to  our 
country. 

A   TRIBUTE    FROM   THE    EMPLOYES. 

A  meeting  of  the  past  and  present  employes  of  The  Tribune^  in- 
cluding members  of  the  Composing  Room,  Press  Room,  and  Maihng 


24  MEMOEIAL   OF   HORACE   GREELEY. 

Department,  was  held  in  the  Composing  Room,  on  Monday,  Dec.  2, 
at  three  o'clock  p.m.,  to  take  action  on  the  death  of  Horace  Greeley. 
Washington  A.  Dodge  was  chosen  to  preside,  and  A.  Vanderwerker 
was  appointed  Seci'etary,  W.  AV.  Pasko,  as  one  of  a  committee 
named  previously,  ofi'ered  the  following  preamble  and  resolutions, 
which  were  adoj^ted  unanimously : 

WJiereas,  Death  has  taken  from  ns  in  the  midst  of  his  usefulness,  Horace  Gree- 
\ey,  the  Founder  and  Editor  of  The  Tribune,  and  for  many  years  our  fiiend  ; 

Resolved,  That  we  deplore  his  loss  as  one  affecting  the  whole  world,  which 
has  been  made  better  by  his  manly  advocacy  of  social  reforms,  his  hatred  of 
human  slavery,  and  his  opposition  to  evils  known  before  his  day,  but  since 
abolished  by  his  influence ;  and  we  mourn  him  as  an  attached  friend,  a  just 
employer,  and  a  true  and  faithful  counselor. 

Resolved,  That  we  tender  to  the  members  of  his  family,  and  to  the  con- 
ductors of  this  paper,  our  sympathy  under  the  blow  they  have  just  received. 

Resolved,  That  this  body  attend  the  funeral,  as  a  mark  of  respect. 

Mr.  Pasko  then  addressed  the  meeting  as  follows  : 
We  scarcely  thought,  as  we  attended  the  funeral  of  William  F. 
Beers,  that  the  next  death  out  of  those  who  were  intimately  associ- 
ated in  the  conduct  of  this  journal  would  be  that  of  its  great 
founder,  Horace  Greeley.  We  have  so  long  been  accustomed  to 
looking  up  to  him  as  a  leader  and  teacher,  that  his  loss  will  be  more 
deeply  felt  by  us  than  that  of  any  other  man  connected  with  the 
press  during  our  lifetime.  There  are  a  thousand  things  that  we 
miglit  say  of  him,  all  redounding  to  his  credit,  but  to  us  his  chief 
merit  was  that  his  humanity  was  never  sunk  in  the  politician  or  the 
editor.  His  heart  was  noble,  his  hand  free,  his  counsels  available  to 
all  who  knew  him,  and  he  ever  took  a  warm  interest  in  every  plan 
to  relieve  suffering  or  diminish  the  sorrows  of  life.  We  can,  of 
course,  enter  into  no  estimate  of  Mr.  Greeley's  character  at  this 
hour.  We  have  lost  a  friend,  and  are  in  no  mood  to  weigh  his 
merits  and  demerits.  Still,  I  think,  we  should  be  remiss  in  duty  if  we 
did  not  at  least  allude  to  his  opposition  to  human  slavery  and  his 
efforts  to  improve  the  condition  of  workingmen.  At  a  time  when 
the  conscience  of  the  leaders  of  parties  was  dead,  and  only  John 
Quincy  Adams,  of  men  whose  voices  were  influential  in  the  councils 
of  the  nation,  offered  a  remonstrance  against  the  evils  that  threat- 
ened the  existence  of  the  Government,  Horace  Greeley  was  known 
as  a  man  opposed  to  slavery,  and  was  disliked  accordingly.  That 
shame  is  now  his  glory,  and  I  think  that  he  would  esteem  as  his 
greatest  claim  on  the  judgment  of  posterity  the  fact  that  he  never 


PROCEEDINGS   OF   VAEIOUS   BODIES.  25 

gave  any  countenance  to  the  "  sum  of  all  villanies,"  He  opposed  it  as 
he  did  the  oppression  of  the  classes  who  labor  by  their  hands ;  he 
knew  no  difference  between  Avhite  and  black,  rich  and  poor.  All 
men  were  of  value  to  him.  Not  only  did  he  theoretically  adhere  to 
this  rule,  but  he  gave  proof  of  his  belief  in  it  by  his  practice.  The 
present  condition  of  printers  in  New  York,  their  freedom  from 
slavish  customs,  is  largely  owing  to  the  man  whose  death  we  have 
met  to  deplore.  Almost  the  last  act  of  his  life,  in  relation  to  the  art 
preservative,  was  to  secure  to  the  men  in  his  establishment  pay  for 
standing  time.  We  have  had  our  differences  with  him,  but  I  think 
I  express  the  feelings  of  those  who  wei'e  then  most  active  against 
him,  when  I  say  that  we  feel  now  that  the  blame  was  not  entirely  on 
one  side. 

You,  Mr.  Chairman,  were  acquainted  with  Mr.  Greeley  when  he 
came  here  a  poor  and  friendless  lad,  and  you  have  watched  his 
course  ever  since.  It  has  been  such  a  one  as  to  reflect  credit  upon 
him  in  every  way.  He  was  poor ;  he  died  with  a  competence,  and 
might  have  left  much  more  had  not  his  heart  been  so  generous.  He 
was  unknown ;  but  no  man  in  these  latter  days  had  so  extensive  a 
fame,  gained  without  office  or  other  props  that  weak  men  need.  He 
had  then  no  friends  ;  but  those  who  heard  the  intelligence  of  his 
death  with  grief  can  be  numbered  by  thousands.  They  are  found 
throughout  the  whole  habitable  globe.  He  has  been  compared  to 
Franklin,  but  while  there  are  some  resemblances  between  them  there 
are  wider  differences.  His  career  was  that  of  a  journalist,  creating 
opinion ;  but  that  of  Franklin  was  three-fold.  He  w^as  a  printer,  a 
scientist,  and  a  diplomat.  Mr.  Greeley  was  also  a  printer,  but  only 
for  a  brief  time.  It  was  simply  the  apprenticeship  necessary  in  the 
days  when  the  editor  had  not  ceased  to  be  Mr.  Printer.  No  doubt 
this  was  valuable  to  him  as  a  preparation,  but  it  was  not  his  life- 
work.  It,  however,  gave  him  that  knowledge  of  men  and  that  ap- 
preciation of  life  which  those  who  spring  into  the  editorial  chair 
fresh  from  the  tuition  of  our  most  experienced  professors  often  lack. 
His  earlier  years  in  New  York  were  badly  paid.  Journalism  was 
to  be  created.  Even  our  largest  dailies  then  only  circulated  2,000 
copies.  That  work  of  creation  Mr.  Greeley  was  quick  to  perform. 
To  him,  with  Bennett  and  Raymond,  and  their  skillful  lieutenants, 
must  this  be  attributed.  They  might  copy,  slightly  altered,  the  dec- 
laration of  Augustus  at  the  close  of  his  career.  Newspapers  were 
in  this  city  then  only  equal  to  those  of  Bristol  or  Cork  ;  they  rival 


26  3IEM0EIAL   OF   HORACE   GREELEY. 

those  of  London  to-day,  and  would  surpass  them,  Avere  the  whole  of 
the  United  States  as  near  to  Manhattan  Island  as  John  O'Groat's  is 
to  London.  We  have  no  fears  for  the  pi-osperity  of  the  papers  these 
great  men  founded.     They  will  live  for  ages. 

The  proprietors  and  editors  of  this  journal,  however,  have  a  loss 
still  more  keen  than  is  ordinarily  the  case  when  the  leader^of  such 
an  establishment  is  removed  by  death.  Mr.  Greeley  was  a  friend  of 
the  warmest  kind.  It  was  not  easy  to  turn  him  away  from  one  who 
had  been  a  friend,  and  then  only  by  most  certain  proofs  of  Avrong- 
doing.  He  made  no  assumptions  of  superiority.  At  the  table  of 
any  one  of  us,  he  was  as  much  at  home  as  in  the  dining-halls  of 
senators  and  judges.  He  had  no  hypocrisy,  and  his  friends  knew 
his  position  on  every  question.  We  mourn  him  as  an  employer  al- 
ways supposed  to  be  just,  a  lover  of  his  kind,  and  as  our  friend. 
He  would  ask  no  higher  praise. 

A  resolution  was  carried  that  the  foregoing  be  inserted  on  the 
minutes  of  the  Tribune  Chapel.  It  was  then  resolved  that  the  em- 
ployes of  the  Tribune  office  meet  at  the  office  on  Wednesday  morn- 
ing and  attend  the  funeral  of  Mr.  Greeley  in  a  body. 

THE  PKESS  AXD  MAIL  ROOMS. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  employes  of  the  press-room  and  mail-room 
of  lite  Tribune^  the  following  resolutions  were  adopted  : 

Resolved,  That  in  Mr.  Greeley  the  nation  lias  lost  one  of  its  most  earnest 
champions  and  purest  statesmen,  the  poor  and  oppressed  an  able  defender,  and 
we  ourselves,  in  common  with  all  the  working-classes,  our  best  friend,  most 
willing  helper,  and  zealous  advocate. 

Resolved,  Tiiat  we  tender  to  his  sorrowing  f\xmih',  now  doubly  bereaved, 
our  sincere  sympathy  for  their  affliction,  and  earnestly  trust  that  in  gratitude 
for  the  many  kind  acts  of  the  illustrious  dead  in  behalf  of  suffering  and  sor- 
rowing humanity,  they  may  never  know  the  need  of  friendly  acts  and  friendly 
counsel. 


At  a  Chapel  Meeting  of  the  compositors  employed  on  The  Tribune, 
held  on  Thursday,  January  9,  1873,  the  following  preamble  and 
resolutions  were  passed  unanimously : 

Whercax,  It  has  been  proposed  that  the  several  printing-offices  in  the 
United  States  give  one  or  more  pounds  of  old  tj'pe  for  the  purpose  of  making  a 
statue  of  Horace  Greeley,  to  be  erected  in  the  lot  in  Greenwood  where  his  re- 
mains are  interred ;  and 

Whereas,  Type  metal  is  specially  adapted  to  reproduce  sharp  and  definite 


PROCEEDINGS   IN   CONGRESS.  27 

outlines,  and  peculiarly  fitted  to  speak  in  the  mute  form  of  an  image  to  those 
who,  in  after  years,  visit  his  resting-place,  as  it  did  beneath  the  training  of 
his  hand,  and  the  grandeur  of  his  brain  and  the  largeness  of  heart;  there- 
fore 

Resolved,  That  we  approve  of  the  icTea  of  erecting  a  statue  of  Horace 
Greeley  in  Greenwood,  made  of  type  metal  which  has  been  cast  into  type 
and  worn  out  in  the  service  of  teaching  the  people  ;  and  further,  be  it 

Resolved,  That  we  ask  of  our  fellow-craftsmen  (many  of  whom,  now 
scattered  over  the  country,  have,  like  ourselves,  either  worked  with  or  for  him 
during  the  forty  years  gone  by)  to  set  up,  on  Monday,  February  3,  1873,  the 
63d  anniversary  of  Mr.  Greeley's  birth,  one  thousand  ems,  and  give  the  receipts 
for  the  same  to  be  expended  in  making  and  erecting  the  statue.  The  money 
to  be  forwarded  to  the  President  of  New  York  Typographical  Union,  No.  6, 
22  Duane  Street,  New  York  City,  of  which  Union  Mr.  Greeley  was  the  first 
President. 

Resolved,  That  the  above  preamble  and  resolutions  be  given  to  the  press  of 
the  United  States,  with  a  request  that  they  be  printed  and  circulated  as  widely 
as  possible. 


U.  S.  CONGRESS. 

PROCEEDINGS  IN  THE  HOUSE  OF  EEPKESENTATIVES. 

Soon  after  the  assembling  of  the  House  of  Representatives  at 
Washington,  on  Monday,  Dec.  2,  the  customary  resolution  was  in- 
troduced appointing  a  committee  to  wait  upon  the  President  and 
inform  him  of  its  readiness  to  receive  any  communication  he  might 
choose  to  make.  The  proceedings  from  this  point,  as  reported  in 
The  Washington  Glohe,  were  as  follows  : 

Mr.  Garfield,  of  Ohio — I  request  that  I  may  not  he  appointed  on 
this  Committee,  as  I  have  some  matters  which  I  desire  to  present  to 
the  House  before  the  Committee  will  probably  return. 

The  Speaker  named  as  members  of  such  Committee,  on  the  part 
of  the  House,  Mr.  Maynard,  of  Tennessee,  Mr.  Tyner,  of  Indiana, 
and  Mr.  Potter,  of  New  York. 

Mr.  Dawes — Mr.  Speaker,  I  think  all  will  concur  in  the  propriety 
of  a  public  recognition  of  an  event  so  impressive,  and  so  without  a 
parallel  in  the  history  of  this  country,  as  that  which  has  recently 
transpired ;  and  I  therefore  deem  it  proper  to  offer  the  following 
resolution : 

Resolv-ed  by  tJie  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives  (the  Senate  concui- 
ring).  That  in  view  of  the  recent  death  of  Horace  Greeley,  for  whom  at  the 
late  election  more  than  three  million  votes  were  cast  for  President,  a  record  be 
made  in  the  Journals  of  Congress  of  appreciation  for  the  eminent  services  and 


28  MEMORIAL   OF   HORACE  GREELEY. 

personal  purity  aud  worth  of  the  deceased,  and  of  the  sad  impression  created 
by  his  death  following  keen  family  bereavement. 

Mr.  Cox — I  have  been  requested,  by  friends  upon  both  sides  of  the 
House,  to  add  one  word  to  the  resolution  of  condolence  and  sym- 
pathy "svliich  has  been  offered  by  my  honorable  friend  from  Mas- 
sachusetts. 

I  have  the  honor.  Sir,  to  reside  in  that  part  of  the  city  of  Xew 
York  which  was  once  represented  by  Mr.  Greeley  in  tlie  Federal 
Congress.  It  might  be  proper,  however,  for  others,  who  knew  him 
more  intimately  than  I  do,  to  speak  of  his  merits,  as  no  doubt  they 
will  be  spoken  of  hereafter.  His  death  was  unexpected.  It  has 
struck  the  American  people  as  a  most  tragic  event,  in  almost  every 
relation  in  which  we  consider  it.  Mr.  Greeley  left  his  impress  upon 
the  American  people,  not  only  by  his  vehement,  earnest,  and  honest 
mode  of  expression,  and  by  the  independence  and  courage  of  his 
thought,  but  also  by  his  enlarged  benevolence  and  practical  charity. 
There  is  one  class  of  our  population  who  will  never  forget  him — the 
poor  and  bereaved.  They  will  remember  him  long  after  most  of  us 
shall  have  been  forgotten. 

Ml".  Speaker,  the  United  States  of  America,  by  their  represent- 
atives here  assembled,  owe  it  to  their  constituents,  as  well  as  to  the 
distinguished  deceased,  that  some  proper  and  cordial  recognition  be 
made  of  this  great  leader.  They  owe  this  obligation,  not  only  be- 
cause Mr.  Greeley  was  once  a  member  of  this  House,  but  because 
he  left  his  impress  strongly  on  the  minds  of  our  people.  "We  should 
testif}'',  even  outside  of  ordinary  precedent,  our  regard  for  his  char- 
acter and  life,  and  the  various  qualities  by  which  he  was  distin- 
guished. Our  sympathy  should  go  forth  from  this  chamber  for  the 
bereaved  and  stricken  family  whom  he  has  left  behind  him.  And 
it  is  especially  proper,  I  think,  that  such  a  resolution  should  come 
from  gentlemen  upon  the  opposite  side  of  this  chamber,  with  w'hom 
he  had  so  often  conferred,  and  Avho  knew  him  and  the  great  portion 
of  his  political  service  so  well. 

The  last  of  Mi*.  Greeley's  days,  if  I  may  be  allowed  so  to  ex- 
press myself,  have  been  silvered  o'er  by  an  exhibition  of  generosity 
and  forgiveness  and  a  large-minded  amnesty  toward  all  jieoplo,  and 
especially  toward  that  class  of  our  people  in  this  country  which 
seemed,  in  his  judgment,  to  deserve  particularly  his  sympathy,  his 
speech,  and  his  pen.  I  think  it  is  especially  proper  and  gentle  for 
this  House  to  remember  him,  now  that  he  is  gone  into  the  silent 


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dignity  of  death.  All  that  we  can  do  in  the  way  of  respect  and 
solace  is  to  follow  him  with  our  deej)  regret  and  our  sorrowing  sym- 
pathy. 

The  resolution  was  unanimously  agreed  to. 

Mr.  Clarkson  N.  Potter,  representative  from  Mr.  Greeley's  dis- 
trict, had  intended  to  make  remarks  similar  to  those  of  Mr.  Cox, 
and  was  grievously  disappointed  that,  during  his  absence  on  the 
Committee  to  wait  on, the  President,  the  resolution  of  sympathy 
had  been  adopted,  and  he  had  lost  the  opportunity  of  paying  a  per- 
sonal tribute  to  an  honored  and  loved  fi'iend. 


THE  NEW  YORK  COMMON^  COUNCIL. 

ACnOX  OF  THE  BOARD  OF  ALDERMEN. 

Special  meetings  of  both  branches  of  the  Common  Council  were 
held  on  Monday,  Dec.  2,  to  take  action  in  relation  to  the  death  of 
Mr,  Greeley.  In  the  Board  of  Aldermen,  Alderman  Vance  was  ap- 
pointed Chairman  ^^ro  tern. 

Gen.  Cochrane  said  in  part :  Mr.  President,  I  understand  that 
the  Board  has  been  organized  in  view  of  the  event  which  has 
shrouded  the  city  with  gloom.  It  needs  no  elaborate  speech  to  des- 
ignate the  occasion  properly.  The  death  of  Horace  Greeley  inclines 
rather  to  silence  than  to  speech.  Language  is  feeble  to  measure 
the  extent  of  our  loss,  and  certainly,  if  referable  to  all  that  he  has 
done,  and  to  what,  if  living,  he  still  might  do,  Avould  better  be  left 
unattempted.  He  was  our  fellow-citizen.  Here  was  his  chosen 
home,  and  here  were  his  daily  walks.  While  here  lie  was  beloved ; 
it  was  elsewhere  that  respect  and  admiration  attended  upon  him. 
But  beloved  by  us  who  knew  him,  and  honored  and  esteemed  by 
all  who  had  heard  of  him,  he  has  nevertheless  gone  from  among  us, 
leaving  a  name  great  and  renowned.  I  have  the  honor  to  introduce 
the  following  resolutions : 

Besolud,  That  we  deplore  the  death  of  Horace  Greeley.  The  public,  in 
the  interval  since  its  unexpected  announcement,  has  evidenced  a  just  sense  of 
the  magnitude  of  the  loss  to  itself  and  to  the  civilized  world.  His  was  the 
wisdom  that  linked  science  to  daily  pursuits,  the  philosophy  that  embraced 
the  human  race  \vithin  commensurate  benevolence,  the  religion  that  excluded 
none  from  its  gracious  fold.  In  the  quest  of  truth  he  "^'as  unwearied,  in  the 
practice  of  virtue  humble,  but  stern  in  dispensing  its  inexorable  laws.  With 
sensibilities  as  tender  as  those  of  a  child,  yet  his  purity  of  heart  installed  him 
the  censor  of  every  human  vice.    He  was  the  moral  teacher  of  the  age.    In 


30  MEMOEIAL   OF  HORACE   GREELEY. 

afiFairs  a  philosopher,  in  politics  a  statesman,  and  in  ethics  a  sage,  he  wrought 
them  all  practically  into  the  greatest  journalist  of  our  time. 

Resolved,  That  we  do  not  forget,  in  the  general  gloom,  the  poignancy  of 
private  grief,  and  we  here  tender  to  the  surviving  farail}'  our  heartfelt  com- 
miseration. 

Resolved,  That  Horace  Greeley  having  grown  in  our  city  to  be  the  man  he 
was,  his  obsequies  should  be  so  celebrated  that  the  people  whom  he  loved  may 
generally  participate  therein.  "We  therefore  direct  that  the  Governor's  Room 
in  the  City  Hall  be  prepared,  when  his  body  shall  lie  in  state  at  public  view 
during  Tuesdaj-,  Dec.  3,  between  the  hours  of  9  a.m.  and  10  p.m. 

Resolved,  That  it  is  hereby  recommended  to  our  citizens  to  close  their  re- 
spective places  of  business  and  refrain  from  any  secular  employment  on  the 
day  set  apart  for  solemnizing  the  funeral  rites  and  ceremonies  ;  that  the  mem- 
bers of  the  Common  Council  will  attend  the  funeral  in  a  body,  with  their 
staves  of  office,  and  draped  in  mourning,  and  will  wear  a  badge  of  mourning 
for  a  period  of  thirty  days  ;  that  the  flags  on  the  City  Hall  and  the  other  pub- 
lic buildings  be  displayed  at  half-mast  from  sunrise  till  sunset,  and  the  owners 
or  masters  of  vessels  in  the  harbor,  and  the  owners  or  occupants  of  buildings 
in  this  city,  be  requested  to  display  their  flags  at  half-mast  on  that  day,  and 
that  a  joint  Committee  of  five  members  of  each  branch  of  the  Common  Coun- 
cil be  appointed  to  perfect  the  above,  and,  after  consultation  with  the  Mayor 
and  heads  of  Departments  of  the  Municipal  Government,  make  such  other 
and  further  arrangements  as  to  them  may  appear  better  calculated  more  clear- 
ly and  impressively  to  manifest  sorrow  for  the  death  and  reverence  for  the 
memory  of  the  deceased. 

The  resolutions  ■were  seconded  by  Alderman  Van  Schaick,  and 
■were  unanimously  adopted.  The  President  appointed  the  following 
as  members  of  the  Joint  Committee,  called  for  by  the  resolutions : 
Aldermen  Cochrane,  Van  Schaick,  Conovcr,  Falconer,  and  Coman. 

CONCURREXCE    OF    THE    ASSISTANT    ALDERMEX. 

The  Board  of  Assistant  Aldermen  -was  called  to  order  by  the 
President.  The  resolutions  adopted  by  the  Board  of  Aldermen 
■were  presented,  and  Assistant  Alderman  Connor  moved  a  concur- 
rence Avith  the  Board  of  Aldermen,  saying,  in  effect,  that  as  a  young 
man  lately  embarked  on  the  sea  of  political  life,  he  could  hardly  be 
expected  to  find  words  adequate  to  the  occasion.  He  referred  to  the 
good  example  furnished  to  the  young  by  Mr.  Gx'eeley,  and  urged  all 
young  men  to  follow  his  example  in  the  determined  manner  in  which 
he  adhered  to  his  principles. 

Mr.  Connor  paid  a  tribute  to  Mr.  Greeley's  efforts  in  behalf  of 
the  colored  race,  saying  that  he  labored  to  put  into  practical  oper- 
ation the  first  principle  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence,  that  all 
men  were  born  free  and  equal.     His  death  was  a  sad  affliction  which 


NEW  YOEK   COMMOlSr   COUNCIL.  31 

men  of  all  creeds  and  political  faith  felt.  His  name  would  go  down 
to  posterity  as  an  honored,  beloved  American,  whose  works  would 
live  till  history  passed  away. 

Assistant. Alderman  Pinckney,  in  seconding  the  motion  for  con- 
currence, said,  in  substance,  that  Mr.  Greeley  had  commended  him- 
self to  the  world  as  a  humanitarian  whose  best  efforts  were  directed 
for  the  benefit  of  the  oppressed.  He  was  the  champion  of  the  labor- 
ing-classes, the  friend  of  the  slave,  earnest  in  the  reformation  of 
abuses  and  in  the  redress  of  wrong;  of  purity  unsullied  and  of  char- 
acter without  reproach. 

The  President,  Otis  T.  Hall,  said,  in  part :  I  can  not  let  this  op- 
portunity pass  without  publicly  expressing  my  sorrow  at  this  dis- 
pensation of  Divine  Providence.  I  do  not  presume  by  my  weak 
words  to  add  to  the  sentiments  already  so  ably  expressed  by  my 
colleague,  but  I  desire  to  express  my  sympathy  with  the  relatives 
of  the  deceased  in  this  their  great  affliction  ;  and  to  mourn  with  the 
city  and  with  the  nation  the  loss  of  one  of  the  greatest  men  of  mod- 
ern times.  Horace  Greeley  is  dead  ;  and  the  nation  mourns.  For 
many  years  we  have  looked  upon  him  as  a  great  political  leader 
who  has  worked  incessantly  for  the  good  of  the  people,  and  has  done 
more  in  the  formation  of  political  parties  and  in  shaping  American 
politics  than  any  man  of  the  age.  He  was  a  friend  of  the  oppressed  ; 
ever  mindful  of  the  wants  of  the  needy.  An  able  advocate  of  in- 
dustry, economy'-,  temperance,  morality,  and  religion,  and  a  loving 
example  of  the  nobility  of  American  citizenship.  But  his  voice  is 
hushed  in  death.  He  will  no  longer  move  among  us,  lightening  the 
burden  of  the  weary  and  giving  faith  and  hope  to  the  disconso- 
late by  his  clear  and  able  discussion  of  the  great  principles  of  per- 
sonal and  national  prosperity.  Although  I  could  not  support  him 
in  the  late  campaign,  yet  I  can  not  but  believe  that  his  motives  were 
all  pure  and  patriotic,  and  his  late  2:)olitical  movements  intended  for 
the  best  interests  of  the  whole  country.  While  I  wish  to  mingle  my 
tears  with  those  of  his  family  and  loved  ones,  I  desire  with  them  to 
look  beyond  the  open  grave,  and  remember  Mr.  Greeley's  dying 
words  :  "  I  know  that  my  Redeemer  liveth."  Let  us  consider  the 
uncertainty  of  human  life,  prepare  for  life  eternal,  and  remember, 
in  the  language  of  the  poet, 

"  Leaves  have  their  time  to  fall, 

And  flowers  to  wither  at  the  north  wind's  breath, 
And  stars  to  set,  but  all, 
Thou  hast  all  seasons  for  thine  own,  0  Death." 


82  MEMORIAL   OF    HORACE   GREELEY. 

The  Board  concurred  in  the  resolutions.  Assistant  Aldermen 
Connor,  Galvin,  Geis,  Healy,  and  Strack  were  designated  as  the 
Joint  Committee  in  behalf  of  the  Assistant  Aldermen,  and  the 
Board  thereupon  adjourned. 

THE   BROOKLYN   COMMON   COUNCIL. 

The  Brooklyn  Common  Council  met  at  3  p.m.,  on  Monday,  Dec. 
2,  Jacob  I.  Bergen  in  the  chair,  and  received  from  Mayor  Powell 
the  following  communication : 

To  THE  Honorable  the  Co>rMON  Council — Oentlemen :  The  death  of  Ilor- 
ace  Greeley  has  excited  a  deep  and  wide-spread  sympathy  throughout  the  land, 
which  has  found  expression  through  the  columns  of  the  press,  irrespective  of 
creed  or  parly  ;  and  in  view  of  his  great  service  to  his  country  during  a  long 
public  career,  I  think  it  highly  proper  that  your  honorable  body  should  join  in 
paying  such  tribute  to  his  memory  as  his  great  character  demands. 

Respectfully  submitted,  S.  S.  Powell,  Mayor. 

Alderman  Boggs  then  offered  the  following  : 

Resolved,  That  a  Committee  of  five  be  appointed  to  draw  suitable  resolu- 
tions of  condolence  for  the  death  of  the  veteran  journalist,  Horace  Greeley,  and 
that  this  Board  do  attend  the  funeral  in  a  body,  and  that  the  Committee  be  ap- 
pointed with  power. 

Previous  to  the  adoption  of  the  resolution.  Alderman  Ropes 
eulogized  the  life  and  character  of  Mr.  Greeley,  and  said  that  the 
lesson  learned  by  his  death  is  that  the  world  is  better  for  his  having 
lived,  and  that  men  will  but  answer  the  purpose  God  had  when  He 
gave  them  birth  if  they  strive  to  emulate  his  blameless  life  and  his 
love  for  his  fellow-men. 

Alderman  Taylor  said,  in  part,  that  it  seemed  very  appropriate 
that  a  public  body  should  pause  in  its  ordinary  routine  of  business, 
and  take  public  notice  of  the  fact  that  one  of  the  greatest  of  Amer- 
ican journalists  and  statesmen  ended  his  life.  The  Board  should 
record  its  high  appreciation  of  his  distinguished  qualities  of  mind 
and  heart,  for  certainly  there  was  no  American  citizen  that  had  not 
learned  to  look  behind  the  few  eccentricities  of  Horace  Greeley  and 
to  find  his  genius  and  great  morality.  There  was  no  cause  of  public 
charity  which  had  not  received  his  active  sympathy  and  the  aid  of 
his  great  talents.  There  is  something  in  the  heart  of  this  great 
nation  which  responds  to  the  sad  bereavement  which  has  fallen  upon 
his  family.  Men  standing  about  the  grave  of  the  illustrious  journal- 
ist should  learn  to  cherish  the  principles  which  he  brought  out  with 
his  life  and  sealed  with  his  death. 


BEOOKLYN   COMMOK   C0U1!TCIL.  33 

Alderman  Dawson  also  made  a  few  appropriate  remarks,  and 
said  that  God  would  bless  Horace  Greeley  for  his  good  deeds,  and 
his  countrj^men  would  remember  him  as  a  devoted  friend  and  bene- 
factor. 

The  Chairman,  Alderman  Bergen,  expressed  his  hearty  appreci- 
ation of  the  greatness  of  Mr.  Greeley,  and  only  refrained  from  mak- 
ing further  remarks  because  of  a  severe  indisposition. 

Alderman  Richardson  said,  in  part :  Once  moi'e  are  opened  the 
gates  of  our  "  beautiful  city  of  the  dead  "  for  the  entrance  of  another 
weary  pilgrim  who,  after  life's  toilsome  struggle  and  wearisome 
journey,  seeks  for  rest  in  its  quiet  retreats.  This  time  those  gates 
are  opened  to  receive,  as  one  of  the  inhabitants  of  that  city,  a  man 
as  distinguished  as  any  of  those  who  have  arrived  before  him ;  as 
during  his  life,  none  excelled  him,  either  in  influence,  usefulness,  or 
fame.  The  name  of  Horace  Greeley  was  not  merely  "  familiar  to  us 
as  a  household  word,"  but  it  was,  it  is,  and  will  be  a  "  household 
word  "  from  one  end  of  this  continent  to  the  other.  Wherever 
civilization  has  marshaled  its  forces,  education  has  erected  its  stand- 
ard, religion  has  posted  her  sentinels,  or  science  has  advanced  her 
outmost  picket,  there  has  reached  the  name  and  fame  of  him  whose 
death  we  lament  and  whose  memory  we  honor  to-day.  Xo  better 
illustration  of  the  vital  force  of  republican  institutions,  and  of  the 
opportunities  and  encouragement  which  they  furnish  for  individual 
development,  can  be  found  than  in  the  events  which  preceded  and 
attended  the  success  of  Horace  Greeley.  Of  him  might  be  said  in 
truth  those  words  so  often  misapplied,  "  He  was  a  self-made  man." 
Born  and  reared  in  poverty,  ungainly  in  figure,  with  no  advantages 
of  person,  voice,  or  manner  to  aid  him,  from  the  age  of  ten  years  he 
was  entirely  self-supporting,  while  for  many  of  the  early  years  of 
his  life  he  was  utterly  neglectful  of  himself  and  his  own  pressing 
wants  for  the  purpose  of  relieving  the  necessities  of  his  parents. 

As  a  defender  of  human  rights  and  as  a  philanthropist,  Horace 
Greeley  had  few  equals  and  no  superiors.  He  recognized  in  every 
man  a  brother,  the  creation  of  the  same  almighty,  beneficent 
Father,  entitled  to  the  same  rights  and  the  enjoyment  of  the  same 
privileges  as  himself  It  was  this  that  made  him  an  aggressive  anti- 
slavery  man.  He  saw  that  freedom  was  the  normal  condition  of 
every  human  being.  Against  all  forms  of  bondage,  except  as  a 
punishment  for  personal  crime,  he  carried  on  an  active  and  efiective 
warfare.     Believing  that  "  the  pen  is  mightier  than  the  sword,"  and 

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34  MEMOEIAL   OF  HORACE   GREELEY. 

of  right  ought  to  be  so,  he  lost  n6  opportunity  of  advocating  and 
demanding  peace.  Believing  that  intemperance  is  personal  enslave- 
ment, and  that  "  temperance  in  all  things"  should  be  the  rule  of  life, 
as  it  is  the  safety  of  every  man,  he  practiced  temperance  himself, 
and  urged  it  as  the  best  course  for  others.  Strong  anti-slavery  and 
temperance  man  as  Horace  Greeley  always  was,  he  never  favored 
the  formation  or  the  existence  of  political  parties  for  the  promotion 
of  either. 

But  I  love  to  think  of  that  closing  scene,  where,  attended  by 
daughters,  the  depth  of  whose  affliction  none  can  fathom,  the  mag- 
nitude of  whose  loss  none  can  appreciate,  with  a  few  attendant 
friends,  Horace  Greeley  came  to  the  close  of  his  "  busy  life."  What 
had  been  his  experiences  through  the  days  of  his  sickness  and  appar- 
ent gloom,  none  of  us  may  know,  but  it  is  peiTnitted  to  us  to 
witness  the  result.  "  I  know  that  my  Redeemer  liveth — it  is  done" 
— that  was  all ;  but  in  those  few  words  are  epitomized  all  the  Gospel 
of  Christ  and  all  the  faith  of  the  Christian.  He  who  has  said,  "  I  am 
the  Resurrection  and  the  Life  ;  he  that  believeth  in  me,  though  he 
were  dead,  yet  shall  he  live  :  and  whosoever  liveth  and  believeth  in 
me  shall  never  die,"  was  the  companion,  the  exemplar,  and  the  con- 
solation of  the  dying  man ;  and  in  that  sublime  faith,  with  his  hand 
in  that  of  his  Redeemer,  he  passed  over  the  Jordan  into  the  promised 
land.  Wherever  suffering  humanity  stretches  forth  her  hands  implor- 
ingly for  relief — wherever  the  liberated  slave  lifts  his  tearful  eyes 
with  thankfulness  to  God  for  his  deliverance ;  in  every  penal  institu- 
tion in  which  philanthropy  has  ameliorated  the  woe  of  the  prisoner 
by  the  abolishment  of  unnecessary  punishment ;  wherever  generous 
hearts  can  appreciate  arduous,  unselfish  toil  for  the  benefit  of  the 
race ;  on  the  Mississippi  as  on  the  Hudson,  on  the  banks  alike  of  the 
Thames  and  the  Seine,  and  of  the  Rhine  ;  on  the  mountains  of 
Switzerland,  in  the  valleys  of  Peidmont,  and  on  the  plains  of  Italy 
— throughout  the  whole  civilized  world  shall  be  mourned  the  loss,  be 
cherished  the  fame,  and  recounted  the  virtues,  gentleness,  labors,  and 
faithfulness  of  Horace  Greeley. 

The  Committee  appointed  to  make  arrangements  for  the  funeral 
included  Aldermen  Boggs,  Ropes,  Clancy,  Richardson,  and  Walter. 

LONG    ISLAND    CITY    COMMON"    COUNCIL. 

The  Common  Council  of  Long  Island  City  met  on  Tuesday  even- 
ing, in  the  City  Hall,  at  Dutch  Kills,  and  the  following  message  from 
Mayor  De  Bevoise  was  read : 


CITY   COUNCIL   OF   ST.    LOUIS.  35 

To  THE  Honorable  the  Common  Council  of  Long  Island  City 
—  Gentlemen :  I  desire  to  call  your  attention,  officially,  to  the  death 
of  one,  who,  but  a  few  days  since,  received  the  suffrages  of  the  great 
majority  of  our  citizens  for  the  highest  office  within  the  gift  of  the 
people — a  man  who  had  endeared  himself  to  the  masses  to  a  degree 
seldom  paralleled — a  man  whose  worth  we  could  not  measure  by 
any  ordinary  standard. 

The  death  of  Horace  Greeley  has  made  many  a  sorrowing 
heart,  and  left  a  void  not  only  in  his  own  particular  profession, 
but  in  every  profession  or  industry  in  our  country  where  the  bright 
example  of  his  honesty,  industry,  and  benevolence  have  been  felt, 
which  can  never  be.  filled.  Had  time  permitted,  I  should  have 
recommended  that  your  Honorable  Body,  in  connection  with  the 
other  branches  of  the  City  Government,  take  part  in  testifying  the 
love  and  respect  of  the  people  at  his  funeral  to-morrow,  Dec.  4. 
I  would  suggest  that  resolutions  expressive  of  our  sorrow  and 
respect  be  adopted,  and  such  further  action  as  may  to  your  Honor- 
able Body,  seem  fitting  under  the  circumstances.  Respectfully, 
Henry  S.  De  Bevoise,  Mayor  of  Long  Island  C'ltj. 

The  message  was,  on  motion,  received  and  entered  on  the  min- 
utes, and  Alderman  Sanford  offered  the  following  resolutions,  which 
were  unanimously  adopted : 

Wliereas,  This  Board  lias  heard  with  sincere  sorrow  of  the  death  of  the 
Hon.  Horace  Greeley  ;  therefore, 

Resolved,  That  the  Common  Council  of  Long  Island  City  express  their  sor- 
row for  the  loss  to  the  country  of  so  great  and  good  a  man,  who  in  word  and 
deed  was  foremost  in  all  reforms,  either  political  or  social,  and  who  has  done  so 
much  to  elevate  the  political  and  social  ideas  of  this  generation.  He  was 
always  in  the  front  rank  of  those  who  would  relieve  the  oppressed — a  man 
whose  life  was  spent  in  striving  to  do  the  greatest  amount  of  good  to  the 
greatest  number.  He  has  apparently  been  taken  away  in  the  midst  of  his  use- 
fulness, but  God  doeth  all  things  well.  In  common  with  all  sections  of  this 
country,  we  mourn  his  loss.  He  has  left  a  shining  mark  which  will  grow 
brighter  and  brighter  as  the  clouds  of  political  partisanship  shall  fade  away, 
and  prove  to  all  the  world  that  he  conscientiously  and  earnestly  worked  for 
freedom  in  its  broadest  sense. 

Besoked,  That  this  Board  attend  the  funeral  in  a  body. 

Resolved,  That  the  above  resolutions  be  recorded  in  the  minutes,  and  that  a 
copy  of  the  same  be  forwarded  to  the  familj''  of  the  illustrious  deceased. 

ACTION    OF    THE    CITY    COUNCIL    OP    ST.  LOUIS. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  City  Council  of  the  City  of  St.  Louis,  held 


36  MEMORIAL   OF  HORACE   GREELEY. 

on  Friday,  November  29,  1872,  the  following  resolutions  were  unani- 
mously adopted  in  connection  with  the  death  of  Horace  Greeley : 

Resolved,  That  the  City  Council  of  the  City  of  St.  Louis  receive  with  deep 
regret  the  intelligence  of  the  death  of  Horace  Greeley,  and  deem  this  a  fitting 
time  to  express  their  appreciation  of  the  patriotism  of  the  man,  and  the  sterling 
integrity  and  unrivaled  industry  which  have  marked  his  career  in  life,  and 
which  enabled  him,  as  a  prominent  citizen,  to  exercise  an  influence  greater  than 
that  accorded  to  men  who  had  achieved  the  highest  public  honor. 

lit'solved,  That  the  Mayor  be  requested  to  convey  to  the  family  of  the  hon- 
ored and  eminent  journalist  the  deep  sympathy  of  the  citizens  of  St.  Louis  for 
them  in  their  great  affliction. 

THE    TROY    CITY    AUTHOUITIES. 

At  the  meeting  of  the  Common  Council  of  Troy,  on  Wednesday 
evening  December  4,  the  following  message  from  the  Mayor  was 

read : 

Mayor's  Office,  Troy,  K  Y.,  Dec.  3,  1873. 
To  THE  Hon.  Comsiok  CorosrciL :  In  the  death  of  Horace  Greeley  the  country 
has  been  called  to  mourn  the  loss  of  one  of  the  most  eminent  and  influential 
of  its  citizens.  In  this  final  event  of  human  life  we  wisely  bury  diff'erences 
and  enmities,  and  unite  our  S3nupatliies  and  sorrows.  In  recognition  of  the 
intellectual  greatness  and  remarkable  application  of  the  powers  of  the  deceased, 
we  may  well  unite  with  the  nation  and  the  civilized  world  in  an  expression  of 
our  sorrow  and  grief  in  this  great  loss.  Thomas  B.  Carroll,  Ma3'or. 

The  following  resolutions  were  then  unanimously  adopted : 

Besolved,  That  the  Common  Council  of  the  City  of  Troy  have  learned  with 
regret  of  the  death  of  Horace  Greeley,  a  great  popular  leader,  and  distinguished 
by  the  suff'rages  of  a  large  moiety  of  the  people  of  the  United  States  for  the 
highest  public  position  in  the  body  politic. 

Besolved,  That  we  tender  to  his  surviving  relatives  the  condolence  of  our 
heartfelt  sympathies. 

IN    rOUGIIKEEPSIE. 

The  Supervisors  of  Dutchess  County,  N.  Y.,  adopted  the  follow- 
ing, prepared  by  Supervisor  Kenworthy: 

Resolved,  That  in  the  death  of  Horace  Greeley  every  man  has  cause  to 
mourn  for  one  who  loved  all  men,  to  mourn  one  who  loved  his  r.ace,  and  sought 
through  all  his  life  to  do  good  to  man  and  not  evil. 

Resolved,  That  we  proudly  recognize  his  unsurpassed  intellectual  power  and 
fertility,  which,  by  tireless  industry,  unworn  persistence  and  marvelous  facility 
of  expi-ession,  have  been  made  to  mark  and  mold  every  topic  of  American 
thought  for  a  quarter  of  a  century. 

Resolved,  That  in  his  death  every  human  interest,  and  especially  the  vast 
interest  of  those  who  toil,  has  lost  a  lifting,  soothing,  and  purifying  force,  such 
as  genius  and  love  and  will  combined  could  alone  supply.  He  will  be  most  a 
loss  to  those  who  have  sufTei'ed  most,  while  the  need  of  him,  or  such  as  he,  will 
never  cease  in  any  rank  of  life.- 


CONSTITUTIONAL   AMENDMENT  COMMISSION.  37 

Resolved,  That  we  heartily  recognize  and  commend  the  great  simplicity, 
beneficence,  and  purity  of  his  character  and  life;  that  all  these  qualities 
were  of  such  a  sort  as  to  make  us  desire,  and  perhaps  to  hope,  that  they  may 
again  be  found  in  equal  prominence  among  those  who  shall  bo  ambitious  to 
become  his  peer. 

Resolved,  That  when  a  great  and  good  man  dies,  it  is  especially  becoming 
for  every  public  body  to  commemorate  his  virtues,  as  that  which  adds  the 
highest  luster  to  even  the  most  imperial  gifts. 

In  presenting  these  resolutions  the  Committee  said : 

This  event  is  to  some  of  us  a  deep  personal  loss.  Beyond  that, 
there  are  many  who  never  saw  him,  and  yet  have  learned,  in  the 
mental  contact  of  a  lifetime,  not  only  to  admire  his  character  and 
revere  his  ability  and  rectitude,  but  also  to  love  the  man.  There 
are  manj^  who  have  later  come  to  concede  and  exalt  his  preeminent 
force,  justice,  kindliness,  and  worth. 

There  are  those,  also,  Avho,  in  the  heat  of  recent  and  embittered 
political  collisions,  may  have  become  in  some  degree  sensitive  to  a 
full  and  hearty  expression  of  those  rare  qualities  Ivhich  posterity 
may  hasten  to  memorize,  and  possibly  embalm,  as  among  the  most 
precious  legacies  of  the  nation  and  the  human  race. 

Eulogies  were  also  pronounced  by  Supervisors  De  Garno  and 
Arnold. 

THE    CONSTITUTIONAL    AMENDMENT   COMMISSION    AT   ALBANY. 

Albany,  Dec.  5. — The  Commission  to  amend  the  Constitution 
has  adjourned  until  January  8.  Before  adjournment  the  Hon. 
Erastus  Brooks  offered  the  following : 

Resolved,  That  the  members  of  this  Commission,  to  prepare  and  propose 
amendments  to  the  Constitution  of  the  State,  share  in  the  general  sorrow  of 
the  people  at  the  death  of  Horace  Greeley,  so  long  one  of  their  most  distin- 
guished fellow-citizens ;  and  that,  fully  recognizing  his  eminent  services  to  the 
commonwealth,  the  country,  and  mankind,  there  be  entered  upon  the  journal 
of  the  proceedings  this  expression  of  our  regret  at  the  great  public  loss,  and 
our  sincere  sympathy  with  the  greatly  bereaved  family  of  the  deceased. 

Resolved,  That  a  copy  of  this  resolution,  properly  engrossed  and  signed  by 
the  President,  be  forwarded  to  the  family  of  the  deceased. 

Mr.  Brooks  made  the  following  remarks ; 

Mr.  President:  I  trust  it  will  not  be  deemed  out  of  place,  nor 
out  of  time,  to  call  the  attention  of  this  Commission  to  an  event 
which,  within  the  week  past,  has  attracted  the  attention  of  the 
people  of  the  State  and  of  the  country  at  large.  Coming  from  the 
great  metropolis  of  our  commonwealth,  as  one  yesterday  taking  part 


38  MEMORIAL   OF   HORACE   GREELEY. 

in  the  obsequies  of  tlie  occasion,  perliapslam  unduly  impressed  with 
the  very  marked  and  peculiar  sorrow  manifested  by  the  people  in 
the  death  and  burial  of  Horace  Greeley.  In  my  long  residence  in 
Xew  York,  extending  over  thirty-six  years,  I  have  seen  no  such 
demonstration  there  or  elsewhere.  It  was  a  tribute  of  a  great  mul- 
titude of  living  men  to  the  memory  of  the  distinguished  dead  :  honor 
to  a  man  without  title,  without  office,  and  all  of  whose  eaithly  honors 
now  lie  in  the  grave.  The  Chief  Magistrate  of  the  country,  within 
the  month  victorious  over  the  honored  dead — now,  as  we  hope  and 
believe,  the  elect  of  Heaven — the  President's  Ministers  of  State, 
eminent  Senators  and  liepresentatives  in  Congress,  distinguished 
men  at  home  and  abroad,  officers  of  the  army  and  navy,  State  and 
municipal  officials  from  near  and  distant  commonwealths,  all  sat 
sorrowfully  and  reverentially  by  the  bier  of  the  departed.  It  rarely 
happens  in  a  lifetime  that  one,  either  in  church  edifice  or  great 
avenues  of  trade,  is  permitted  to  behold  such  a  spectacle  of  numbers 
or  of  honors  paid  even  to  the  most  exalted  in  rank.  Along  four 
miles  of  the  public  way,  on  either  side,  business  is  suspended,  the 
streets  thronged,  and  Avhen  the  great  city  where  Mr.  Greeley  lived 
is  left  to  cross  the  river  where  now  rest  his  mortal  remains,  we  see 
almost  an  equal  demonstration  of  public  and  private  grief.  Every- 
where, as  the  body  is  borne  along,  hats  are  raised,  or  heads  uncov- 
ered, in  token  of  respect  for  the  great  editor,  philanthropist,  and  the 
true  man.  The  business  of  the  day  in  the  great  metropolis  and  the 
surrounding  country  is  for  the  time  checked,  while  representa- 
tives of  the  Government  pause  to  participate  in  the  general  grief. 

Such  was,  on  yesterday,  the  scene  over  one  Avho,  without  much 
attraction  in  person,  without  magnetism  in  voice  or  manner,  without 
brilliant  oratory,  impressed  his  great  heart  and  great  mind  upon  the 
nation.  Mr.  Greeley  was,  indeed,  a  great  worker  in  thought  and 
brain  and  hand.  He  loved  and  served  mankind,  and  found  his  best 
happiness  and  hereafter,  if  not  here,  his  greatest  reward  in  serving 
his  fellow-men.  He  wrote  as  Franklin  wrote — with  simplicity,  force, 
and  effect.  He  was  eminently  practical  in  life  and  thought.  His 
pen  and  tongue  reached  all  classes  and  conditions  of  people,  and  he 
labored  for  the  benefit  of  all  mankind.  Though  not  without  ambi- 
tion, he  preferred  duty  to  honorable  place,  and  more  than  once, 
against  the  advice  of  old  friends,  he  sacrificed  high  preferment  in 
office,  even  the  highest  in  the  State,  by  a  bold  and  manly  obedience 
to  conscience.     He  has  erone  from  amonir  us,  and  in  the  common- 


NATIONAL   DEMOCRATIC    COMMITTEE.  39 

wealth  where  he  lived  so  long,  and  whose  policy  in  the  past  he  so 
largely  molded,  I  trust  it  is  not  unbecoming  to  pause  a  moment  in 
our  deliberations  to  pay  this  tribute  to  the  memory  of  the  dead.  It 
is  said  Mr.  Greeley  had  great  eccentricities  of  character;  but  so 
long  as  eccentricities  are  not  blemishes,  who  shall  say  that  what 
seemed  eccentric  Avas  not  right  ?  And  it  is  also  said  that  he  was 
credulous ;  but  what  men  call  credulity  is  often  only  a  large  faith  in 
men — in  their  words  and  thoughts,  in  their  promises  and  life.  Mr. 
Greeley  believed  much,  trusted  much,  and  so  he  was  sometimes  de- 
ceived in  men.  He  was  called  visionary,  vacillating,  and  uncertain 
in  purpose ;  but  who,  Sir,  Avould  not  prefer  to  err  upon  the  side  of 
Christian  faith  and  human  hope  in  men,  than  distrusting  all  good- 
ness, close  one's  eyes  and  heart  to  all  those  better  impulses  which 
we  receive  from  God  ? 

Mr.  Greeley  was  certainly  far  from  jjerfect,  and  in  many  things 
his  own  worst  enemy.  Pie  toiled  too  much  with  brain  and  thought 
for  his  own  good,  and  in  the  end,  when  sorrows  accumulated  and 
disappointments  came  upon  him,  he  found  but  little  of  that  repose 
so  necessary  to  health,  strength,  and  a  cheerful  mind.  He  reminded 
me,  in  the  great,  sad  end  of  his  life,  of  the  words  uttered  by  one 
great  j^oet  of  the  sorrowful  and  sudden  exit  from  the  world  of  one 
younger  in  years,  and  the  close  of  whose  life  was  also  full  of  sorrow : 

"  So  the  struck  eagle,  stretched  along  the  plain, 
No  more  through  rolling  clouds  to  soar  again — 
Views  his  own  feather  on  the  fatal  dart 
That  marked  the  shaft  that  quivered  in  his  heart. 

Keen  were  his  pangs,  but  keener  far  to  feel 
He  nursed  tlie  pinion  which  impelled  the  steel ; 
And  the  same  plumage  which  had  warmed  his  nest 
Drank  the  last  life-drop  from  his  bleeding  breast." 

The  resolutions  Avere  unanimously  adopted  by  a  rising  vote. 

THE    NATIONAL    DEMOCRATIC    COMMITTEE. 

The  National  Democratic  Committee  issued  the  following  cir- 
cular : 

Headquarters  op  the  National  Democratic  Committee,  ) 

New  York,  December  3,  1872.      [ 

The  National  Democratic  Convention  did,  in  July,  1873,  with  a  unanimity 

unprecedented  in  the  history  of  the  party,  nominate,  as  their  candidate  for  the 

office  of  President  of  the  United  States,  Horace  Greeley,  of  New  York.     Six 

States  cast  their  electoral  vote  for  him  at  the  late  election,  and  millions  of  men 


40  MEMORIAL   OF  HORACE   GREELEY. 

in  other  States,  where  we  failed  of  success,  testified  their  appreciation  of  his 
noble  character,  and  the  great  service  he  had  rendered  the  country,  by  voting 
our  electoral  ticket. 

But  Horace  Greeley  is  dead,  and  the  splendor  of  the  political  victory 
achieved  by  his  opponents  is  now  diminished  by  the  sorrow  which  this  sad 
event  has  cast  upon  the  people  whom  he  loved,  and  who  regarded  him  as  one 
of  tiie  best,  truest,  and  bravest  of  men. 

Tlie  lessons  of  his  pure  and  blameless  life  will  long  remain  impressed  upon 
the  age  in  which  he  lived.  Every  beat  in  his  great  heart  was  in  symjjathy 
with  humanity  in  its  broadest  form;  he  loved  the  Government;  he  loved  his 
fellow-men;  and  the  labors  of  his  whole  life  were  to  elevate  the  condition  of 
mankind.  No  struggle  for  libertj'',  civil  or  religious,  was  ever  made  on  the 
surface  of  the  earth  since  his  manhood  began  with  which  he  did  not  affection- 
ately sympathize,  and  to  which  he  failed  to  give  cheerful  and  powerful  aid. 
Every  day  of  his  life  abounded  with  acts  of  kindness,  of  charity,  of  forgiveness, 
and  of  love. 

Not  his  stricken  fixmily  alone,  but  a  stricken  people,  sorrow  for  a  loss  wholly 
inscrutable,  and  almost  unparalleled. 

The  National  Democratic  Committee,  in  behalf  of  the  great  party  who 
achieved  honor  by  their  faithful  effort  to  elect  him  to  the  first  ofiice  in  the 
Government,  will  do  all  in  their  power  to  honor  his  name  and  memory. 

Augustus  Schell, 
Chairman  National  Democratic  Committee. 

IN   THE    SENATE    AT    ALBANY. 

In  the  State  Senate,  on  "Wednesday,  Dec.  4,  Senator  Benedict 
offered  the  following : 

Resolved,  That  with  grateful  sense  of  the  eminent  services  of  ^Ir.  Greeley 
to  this  State  and  nation,  the  Senate  expresses  its  high  appreciation  of  his  self- 
culture,  his  unselfish  humanity,  his  distinguished  abilities,  and  his  pure  life, 
which  made  him  one  of  the  greatest  of  journalists  and  most  impressive  politi- 
cal and  moral  popular  educators,  and  tenders  to  his  bereaved  family  the  ex- 
pressions of  its  deepest  sympathy. 

liesolved,  That  as  a  token  of  respect  to  his  memory  the  Senate  do  now,  in 
the  progress  of  his  obsequies,  adjourn  its  present  sitting. 

Resolved,  That  a  copy  of  these  resolutions  be  sent  to  the  family  of  the 
deceased  by  the  Clerk. 

Mr.  Murphy  seconded  the  resolutions.  lie  said  he  could  not,  in 
justice  to  his  feelings,  allow  the  occasion  to  pass  without  making  a 
few  remarks.  No  man  has  left  a  greater  mark  on  the  policy  of  the 
Government  of  his  country  than  Horace  Greeley.  His  ideas  were 
those  whicli  founded  that  great  party  which  is  now,  and  is  to  be  for 
years  to  come,  in  the  ascendant.  His  ideas  have  become  the  fixed 
and  settled  policy  of  the  Repulican  party.     He  warred  long  and 


PRESIDENTIAL   ELECTORS   OF   NEW   YORK.  41 

strenuously  for  its  interests,  and  was  at  all  times  devoted  to  ad- 
vancing its  welfare.  He  is  entitled  to  the  gratitude  of  millions 
whom  he  had  labored  for  in  many  ways  and  to  the  confidence  of  the 
political  party  with  which  he  was  allied.  Alive  at  the  close  of  his 
life  to  the  great  and  direful  consequences  which  would  follow  unless 
new  measures  were  taken,  he  was  foremost  and  ahead  of  his  party  in 
advocating  them,  and  thus  he  succeeded  in  winning  the  respect  and 
confidence  of  that  great  party  which  was  not  successful  in  the  late 
election.  They  made  him  their  candidate,  not  because  they  were  in 
sympathy  with  him  in  all  his  political  views,  but  because  of  the 
position  which  he  had  taken.  His  memory  will  be  held  dear  by 
all  of  us  ;  and  where  shall  Ave  find  his  equal  ? 

Mr,  Murphy  then  referred  to  his  personal  relations  with  Mr. 
Greeley.  They  had  been  members  of  the  same  Congress,  and  of  the 
late  Convention  called  to  revise  the  Constitution,  He  could  bear 
testimony  as  to  his  patriotism  and  his  untiring  zeal  in  prosecuting 
the  views  which  commended  themselves  to  his  judgment.  Differing 
from  him  in  some  regards,  he  knew  him  to  be  faithful  and  sincere  in 
all  he  undertook.  He  had  a  rare  faculty  of  impressing  his  views  on 
others,  and  sometimes  did  so  with  a  dogmatism  that  seemed  like  un- 
charitableness,  and  which  rendered  it  difficult  for  those  whom  he  had 
vigorously  opposed  to  support  him  in  the  late  election.  In  conclu- 
sion, Mr,  Murphy  expressed  the  hope  that  all  feelings  of  asjDcrity 
toward  Mr,  Greeley  from  any  source  would  be  buried  in  his  grave. 
The  resolutions  were  adopted,  the  Senate  rising. 

BY  THE    PESIDEXTIAL    ELECTORS    OF   NEW    TOEK. 

At  the  meeting  of  Presidential  Electors  at  Albany  on  Wednesday, 
the  Hon.  Andrew  D.  White,  after  alluding  to  the  death  of  Horace 
Greeley,  and  speaking  of  his  services,  his  high  character,  and 
the  loss  the  country  experiences  in  his  demise,  j)roposed  the  fol- 
lowing : 

The  Electoral  College  of  the  State  of  New  York,  remembering 
that  on  this  day  the  mortal  remains  of  Horace  Greeley  are  to  be 
committed  to  the  grave,  desires  to  place  upon  the  minutes  of  its 
proceedings  an  expression  of  the  feeling  of  its  members.  The  Elec- 
tors have  heard  of  the  death  of  Mr.  Greeley  with  deep  sorrow  ;  they 
remember  him  as  one  of  those  who  labored  at  the  foundations  of  the 
Republican  party  most  devotedly,  and  who  fought  his  battles  most 
fearlessly ;  they  recall  with  reverence  his  faith  in  right,  his  hatred 


42  MEMORIAL   OF   HORACE    GREELEY. 

of  wrong,  his  sympatliy  with  the  oppressed,  his  efforts  to  give 
courage  to  the  struggling,  his  anxiety  to  better  the  condition  of  the 
poor,  his  unceasing  labors  to  promote  the  moral  and  material  ad- 
vancement of  his  country,  with  the  great  body  of  liis  fellow-citizens 
of  all  varieties  of  opinions.  They  lament  him  not  only  as  one  from 
whom  the  country  had  received  great  good  in  tlie  past,  but  also  one 
from  whom  much  thouglit,  fruitful  of  good,  was  expected  in  the 
future.  While  the  members  of  this  Electoral  College  remain 
entirely  firm  in  the  conviction  that  in  this  their  final  expression,  this 
day,  of  the  will  of  the  people  of  the  Commonwealth,  as  to  the 
choice  of  a  Chief  Magistrate  of  the  United  States,  they  are  acting 
for  the  highest  good  of  the  nation,  and  for  the  continuance  of  a  just, 
progressive,  and  pacific  policy,  they  feel  that  the  memory  of  the 
late  opposing  candidate  is  to  be  cherished  tenderly.  The  College 
orders  that  its  Secretaries  make  a  record  of  this  memorandum,  and 
that  they  forward  a  coj^y  of  it  to  the  family  of  the  deceased  patriot 
and  philanthropist. 

W.  E.  Dodge,  of  New  York,  and  Barney  R.  Johnson,  of  Bing- 
haraton,  seconded  the  resolutions  in  brief  but  feeling  speeches,  and 
they  were  adopted. 

IX   THE    MASSACHUSETTS    LEGISLATURE. 

The  Massachusetts  House  of  Rej^resentatives  on  "Wednesday 
afternoon  ])assed  unanimously  the  following  resolutions  on  the  death 
of  Horace  Greeley : 

Bexolted,  That  the  Senate  and  Ilonse  of  Representatives  of  the  Common- 
wealth of  Massachusetts,  in  General  Court  assembled,  have  learned  the  death 
of  Horace  Greeley  with  profound  emotion.  A  son  of  New  England,  he  became 
a  citizen  of  the  woild  ;  his  origin  was  humble,  but  his  fame  penetrated  alilce 
to  hovel  and  palace;  his  patriotism  was  lervid  and  unquestioned;  liis  philan- 
throi)y  was  unlimited  by  space  and  as  universal  as  the  family  of  man  ;  his 
energy  was  intense,  his  industry  unwearied,  his  career  was  memorable  and  its 
close  impressive ;  he  stamped  his  influence  upon  the  thought  of  (he  ago  and 
the  current  history  of  America  ;  his  benevolent,  earnest,  and  eccentric  charac- 
ter will  command  the  respectful  and  affec-ionate  remembrance  of  the  present 
and  succeeding  generations  of  his  countrymen. 

BeKohed,  That  his  Excellency  the  Governor  be  respect full}^  requested  to 
transmit  a  copy  of  these  resolutions  to  the  surviving  daughters  of  Mr.  Greeley, 
as  an  expression  of  the  sincere  sympathy  felt  by  the  Legislature  in  view  of  the 
surprising  afflictions  which  have  overwhelmed  them  with  grief. 

In  moving  the  adoption  of  the  resolution,  Mr.  Cogswell  made  an 
elaborate  and  eloquent  eulogy  of  INIr.  Greeley.  The  resolutions 
were  sent  to  the  Senate  under  a  suspension  of  the  rules. 


LIBEEAL   REPUBLICAN   GEIS^EEAL   COMMITTEE.  43 

THE    LIBERAL   REPUBLICAN    GEXERAL     COMMITTEE. 

A  meeting  of  the  Liberal  Republican  General  Committee  was 
held  on  Monday  evening  at  the  headquarters,  No.  814  Broadway. 
The  Hon.  E.  Stewart  presided,  George  F.  Coachmon  and  Weeks  W. 
Culver  acting  as  secretaries.  There  was  a  very  full  attendance. 
The  Chairman  stated  briefly  the  object  of  the  meeting  and  the  loss 
the  Committee  and  the  nation  at  large  had  sustained  in  the  death  of 
Mr.  Greeley. .    Gen.  John  A.  Foster  offered  the  following  resolutions : 

WJiereas,  It  has  pleased  Divine  Providence  to  remove  to  his  everlasting 
rest  our  beloved  friend  and  honored  leader,  Horace  Greeley  ;  therefore 

Resolved,  That,  while  our  hearts  are  weighed  down  with  affliction  at  our 
heavy  loss,  we  are  grateful  to  the  Supreme  Ruler  of  events  that  our  friend  was 
spared  for  so  long  a  career  of  usefulness,  and  that  the  advancement  of  the  great 
interests  of  humanity,  civilization,  and  brotherhood  among  all  men,  for  which 
he  so  long  and  so  faithfully  and  disinterestedly  labored,  will  not  be  hindered 
or  delayed  even  by  his  death. 

Besolved,  That  the  history  of  his  life,  too  well  known  to  need  recital  here, 
is  the  bright,  unstained  record  of  an  existence  devoted  to  the  good  of  others. 
Owing  nothing  to  accidental  advantages,  having  from  his  childhood  to  rely 
upon  his  own  unaided  exertions  for  his  living,  his  education  and  opportunities 
for  public  usefulness,  he  rose  by  the  force  of  native  genius,  guided  by  pure 
purposes  and  strengthened  by  the  habits  of  industry  acquired  in  early  youth, 
and  never  relaxed  until  the  finger  of  death  touched  him,  from  poverty  to  what 
would  have  been  a  condition  of  affluence  but  for  his  untiring  generosity — 
from  obscurity  to  fame.  Recognized  as  the  first  in  his  chosen  profession,  a 
profession  which  he  has  done  more  than  any  other  writer  to  elevate  to  the 
proud  and  honorable  position  it  now  holds — honored  in  literature  in  which  he 
made  for  himself  a  name,  and  became  a  force  by  his  unrivaled  power  to  ex- 
press in  fitting  language  great  and  valuable  thoughts — but  recognized,  honored, 
and  worthy  of  honor,  now  that  his  work  is  done,  most  of  all,  in  and  because 
of  this,  that  he  was  always  the  friend,  the  advocate,  and  the  champion  of  the 
poor,  the  weak,  and  the  oppressed.  In  the  great  events  which  have  taken 
place  in  our  country  within  his  lifetime,  and  especially  in  those  which  result- 
ed in  the  removal  of  the  crime  and  shame  of  slavery,  and  the  elevation  to  the 
rights  of  manhood  and  citizenship  of  a  long-oppressed  race,  the  services  and 
influence  of  Horace  Greeley  were  preeminent.  His  disinterestedness,  purity, 
and  statesmanship  were  demonstrated  when,  at  the  close  of  the  long,  bloody, 
and  exhausting  contest  which  distracted  the  nation,  he  who  of  all  men  had 
borne  most  obloquy,  incurred  most  hatred  from  the  defeated  party,  was  the  first 
to  claim  for  that  party  the  full  and  free  restoration  to  all  civil  and  political 
rights,  and  to  advocate  the  refistablishment  of  the  Union  in  the  spirit  of  frater- 
nal affection.  Always  in  advance  of  his  political  associates,  he  was  the  crea- 
ture of  no  party.  Advocating  truths  for  no  other  inducement  than  that  they 
were  truths,  he,  even  while  he  was  yet  with  us,  saw  nearly  all  the  principles 
for  the  avowal  of  which  he  was  at  first  reviled,  adopted  by  the  people  and  en- 


44  MEMORIAL   OF  HOEACE    GREELEY. 

actctl  into  laws,  and  soon  tlie  veiy  doctrines  which  he  last  advocated  will,  by 
adoption,  become  the  creed  of  a  united  nation,  and  in  the  fruition  of  the  hopes 
be  so  earnestly  entertained,  and  for  the  realization  of  which  he  so  ardently  la- 
bored, that  the  errors,  the  quarrels,  and  the  bitterness  of  the  past  should  be  for- 
gotten, and  the  people  of  his  native  land,  in  a  spirit  of  fraternal  kindness,  pro- 
ceed to  work  out  the  great  career  which  is  open  to  them,  we  will  find  conso- 
lation for  his  untimely  departure. 

Resolved,  That  as  political  supporters  and  associates  of  our  lamented  friend, 
■we  deem  it  due  alike  to  our  cause,  to  his  memory,  and  to  ourselve-^,  to  declare 
our  continued  faith  in  and  adhesion  to  the  principles  represented  and  main- 
tained by  him  in  the  late  canvass ;  but  we  make  this  declaration  in  no  spirit 
of  partisanship,  and  in  the  hope  and  belief  that  the  time  is  near  at  hand  when 
those  who  have  been  opposed  heretofore  only  upon  issues  which  have  been 
settled,  will  be  able  to  meet  and  act  together  with  exclusive  reference  to  the 
public  good. 

Resolved,  That  we  are  profoundly  impressed  by  the  universal  manifestations 
of  the  sorrow  felt  by  all  our  fellow-citizens  at  our  common  loss,  and  gladly 
recognize  in  the  general  expressions  of  grief  the  proof  that  no  differences  of 
opinion  have  obscured  the  luster  of  our  dead  friend's  qualites  of  heart  or  mind. 
The  tears  that  flow  upon  his  bier  come  from  honest  hearts,  and  over  his  grave 
men  of  all  races  and  of  all  parties  will  off'er  the  best  tribute  to  his  memory 
when  they  unite  in  obliterating  past  differences  and  striving  together  to  carry 
on  those  great  labors  for  the  public  good,  for  which  he  lived  and  for  which  he 
died. 

Resolved,  That  we  tender  to  the  children  of  the  deceased  our  deepest  sym- 
pathj'^  for  the  irreparable  loss  for  which  there  can  be  no  consolation  or  ade- 
quate reparation. 

Col.  Willis  made  a  long  speech  in  eulogy  of  Mr.  Greeley,  and  al- 
luded in  fitting  terms  to  his  public  services,  Chas.  T.  Polhamus, 
Mr.  Frankenheimer,  Gen.  Geo.  Cochrane,  and-  the  Hon.  Christopher 
Pullman  followed  in  short  and  feeling  addresses.  Mr.  Pullman  said 
he  hoped  that  when  the  vote  was  taken  on  the  resolutions  it  would 
be  done  silently,  the  members  rising. 

KIXGS    COUNTY    LIBERAL     COMMITTEE. 

A  meeting  of  the  Kings  County  Liberal  Committee  was  held  on 
Saturday  evening,  in  Sawyer's  Hall,  at  Fulton  and  Jay  streets,  Brook- 
lyn. The  Hon.  W.  W.  Goodrich  presided.  The  Chairman  read  a 
series  of  resolutions,  which  he  stated  had  been  drawn  up  as  a  basis 
of  action  for  the  Committee.     They  are  as  follows : 

The  Liberal  General  Committee  of  Kings  County,  deeply  impressed  by  the 
death  of  their  lamented  leader,  Horace  Greeley,  and  filled  with  a  sorrow  that 
finds  no  adequate  expression  in  words,  make  this  public  record  of  our  grief  at 
the  great  public  and  private  affliction  which  has  fallen  upon  his  family,  his 
country,  and  the  world. 


KINGS   CO.    DEMOCEATIC   GENEEAL   COMMITTEE.  45 

We  remember  his  charity,  his  gentleness,  his  simplicity  of  character,  his 
long  and  unswerving  fidelity  to  the  cause  of  liberty  to  the  enslaved,  his  un- 
wearied efforts  to  ameliorate  the  condition  of  the  oppressed  of  all  nations,  his 
faithfulness,  and  his  consecration  to  his  convictions  of  duty  as  he  understood  it. 

We  remember  that,  when  wearied  with  the  excitement  and  labor  of  a  politi- 
cal contest,  in  which  he  was  the  central  figure,  he  was  called  to  wait  the  com- 
ing of  death  to  his  beloved  wife.  He  watched  night  and  day  by  her  dying 
bed  till  strength  and  reason  failed  ;  that  he  bore  his  personal  afBictions  and 
his  political  defeat  with  a  manly  resignation,  and  then  simply  took  up  the  la- 
bor and  burden  of  his  life  again,  till  the  overtaxed  body  and  brain  gave  way, 
and  he  died  in  the  vigor  of  his  temperate  manhood,  to  leave  a  nation  in  tears 
and  a  world  in  sorrow. 

We  dare  not  intrude  upon  the  grief  of  his  doubly-orphaned  daughters. 
May  the  God  of  the  fatherless  comfort  their  mourning  hearts. 

We  dry  our  tears,  and  over  his  dead  body  solemnly,  and  anew,  consecrate 
our  lives  and  our  energies  to  the  great  principles  of  which  Mr.  Greeley  was 
the  exponent  and  advocate. 

We  will  pay  the  last  sad  tribute  to  his  memory  by  attending  his  funeral  in 
a  body. 

Speeches  were  made  by  C.  J.  Maxwell,  Joseph  Reece,  J.  Pick- 
ett, Dr.  Norris,  Supervisor  Harman,  and  others,  eulogizing  the  de- 
ceased, and  the  resolutions  were  then  adopted. 

KINGS    COUNTY    DEMOCRATIC    GENERAL    COMMITTEE. 

The  Democratic  General  Committee  of  Kings  County  held  a 
special  meeting  on  Tuesday  evening  at  No.  26  Court  Street,  Brook- 
lyn, Tunis  G.  Bergen  in  the  chair.  G.  W.  Reid,  in  a  few  appropriate 
words,  expressed  the  deep  sorrow  of  the  Democratic  party  at  the 
death  of  Horace  Greeley,  whom  it  had  earnestly  supported  during 
the  late  campaign  for  the  Presidency.  In  conclusion,  he  said  that 
by  the  death  of  Mr.  Greeley  his  policy  of  reconciliation  and  peace 
would  be  carried  out  perhaps  better  than  if  he  had  become  Presi- 
dent. John  B.  Pitts,  of  the  Second  Ward,  then  offered  the  following, 
which  were  unanimously  adopted : 

Resolved,  That  this  Committee  do  deeply  participate  in  the  general  grief  at 
the  dcatli  of  Horace  Greeley,  to  whom  it  so  recently  gave  its  most  earnest 
support  for  the  highest  office  in  the  gift  of  the  American  people. 

Besohed,  Tliat  highly  as  we  esteem  the  private  and  public  character  of  Mr. 
Greeley  as  shown  bj'  his  whole  life,  we  regard  his  noble  and  patriotic  conduct 
during  his  last  years  as  elevating  him  far  above  the  realms  of  mere  partisanship 
among  the  few  illustrious  Americans  who  have  sought  the  Presidency  on  the 
broad  platform  of  patriotism  alone. 

Besohed,  That  the  cause  of  Universal  Amnesty  and  Impartial  Suffrage,  of 
peace  and  unity  between  all  classes  of  American  citizens,  of  the  equality  of  the 


46  MEMORIAL   OF   nOEACE   GREELEY. 

States,  of  local  self-government,  and  of  the  supremacy  of  the  civil  over  mar- 
tial law,  expounded  in  his  last  and  grandest  utterances,  are  rendered  still  more 
sacred  by  his  sad  and  touching  death. 

Resolved,  That  this  Committee  do  now  adjourn,  as  a  token  of  respect  to  the 
memory  of  the  illustrious  dead. 

KINGS    COUNTY   REPUBLICAN   GENERAL   COMMITTEE. 

The  Republican  General  Committee  of  Kings  County  met  on 
Tuesda)^  at  Commonwealth  Hall,  Brooklyn,  Silas  B.  Dutcher  in  the 
chair.  After  some  routine  business  had  been  transacted,  Lorin 
Palmer  arose  and  addi-essed  the  Committee  in  substance  as  follows  : 

I  trust  it  will  be  deemed  a^jpropriate  that  this  Committee  should 
in  some  manner  take  notice  of  an  event  already  known  to  every 
person  throughout  this  land,  and  Avhich  has  filled  our  hearts  with 
sorrow.  The  pall  of  death  has  gathered  over  us.  One  has  gone 
toward  whom  we  have  been  accustomed  to  look  with  no  common 
interest.  The  voice  of  one  to  whom  we  loved  to  listen  for  words 
of  wisdom  and  encouragement  has  been  hushed  forever. 

A  name  has  been  stricken  from  the  roll  of  the  living  which  has 
so  long  been  associated  with  us  as  a  nation,  and  was  so  identified 
with  the  rise  and  progress  of  the  jDvinciples  around  which  our 
strength  has  gathered,  our  hopes  have  centered,  and  our  j^arty  has 
crystallized.  We  speak  of  the  death  of  Horace  Greeley  as  of  one 
whose  relations  were  those  of  a  father  to  our  organization.  No 
words  of  mine  can  increase  the  interest  and  respect  with  which  he 
has  been  regarded  by  the  people  of  this  whole  country.  Through 
his  writings,  perhaps  more  than  any  other  man,  do  I  confess  that 
I  have  been  led  into  the  convictions  of  the  true  nobility  and  high 
purposes  of  the  Republican  party. 

I  deem  it  therefore  a  fitting  thing  that  this  committee  should 
take  such  action  as  will  recognize  in  a  becoming  manner  the  death 
of  one  who  had  been  to  us  a  leader ;  a  powerful  champion  in  the 
field  of  human  rights ;  whose  life  and  virtues  have  so  long  been  our 
pride  and  strength,  I  would,  therefore,  move  that  a  committee  of 
five  be  appointed  by  the  chair  to  prepare  suitable  resolutions,  ex- 
pressing the  depth  of  our  sorrow  at  his  death  and  our  esteem  of  his 
many  virtues. 

The  chairman  made  a  brief  speech,  in  the  course  of  which  he 
said  that  the  action  proposed  was  very  appropriate,  and  should  be 
promptly  taken.  The  resolution  was  then  adopted,  and  the  com- 
mittee appointed  included  the  Chairman,  3Ir.  Dutcher,  and  Messrs. 


THE   APOLLO   HALL   DEMOCRACY.  47 

Palmer,  Perry,  Williams,  Johnson,  Daggert,  and  Tanner.  After  a 
short  deliberation  the  committee  presented  the  following  resolu- 
tions : 

Whereas,  An  overruling  Providence  lias  removed  by  the  hand  of  death  our 
well-known  friend  and  honest  citizen,  Horace  Greeley,  therefore 

Eesohed,  That  we  bow  in  heartfelt  sorrow  to  that  sovereign  decree  which 
has  taken  from  that  large  and  influential  sphere  one  so  long  identified  with  this 
people  as  an  earnest  and  devoted  supporter  of  those  principles  held  in  high 
regard  by  all  men  sympathizing  in  the  elevation  of  their  common  humanity  to 
equal  rights ;  that  we  deem  the  death  a  national  loss,  his  long  and  varied  expe- 
rience rendering  him  one  truly  capable  of  giving  wise  and  sweet  counsel  in  all 
public  affairs  ;  that  we  remember  with  pride  his  past  efforts  as  the  champion 
of  universal  freedom  for  all  mankind.  His  instinctive  hatred  of  oppression, 
his  ready  sympathy  for  the  oppressed,  his  example  to  the  earnest  men  in  our 
land,  presenting  to  them  an  industry  and  manly  self  reliance  calculated  to 
encourage  aspirations,  under  all  circumstances,  to  a  higher  life  by  virtue  of  real 
merit,  which  always  has  its  reward. 

Resolved,  That  a  copy  of  the  foregoing  resolution  be  entered  upon  the  min 
utes  of  the  Committee,  and  a  copy,  suitably  engrossed,  be  forwarded  to  the 
family  of  the  distinguished  deceased. 

THE    APOLLO    HALL   DEMOCEACT. 

The  Apollo  Hall  Democracy,  in  the  course  of  its  meeting,  on 
Tuesday  night,  adopted  the  following  : 

Resolved,  That  the  Apollo  Hall  Reform  Democracy  have  learned  with  pro- 
found regret  of  the  sad  demise  of  our  illustrious  fellow-citizen,  Horace  Gree- 
ley, and  we  take  this  opportunity  of  expressing  our  admiration  for  his  great 
talents,  his  spotless  integrity,  his  unflinching  patriotism,  and  the  noble  charity 
which  ever  inspired  his  public  and  private  conduct,  and  that  in  his  death  our 
country  has  lost  one  of  her  worthiest  sons,  philanthropy  its  most  generous  ally, 
and  liberty  its  most  devoted  champion. 

Resolved,  That  this  resolution  be  entered  upon  the  minutes,  and  sent  to  the 
journals  for  publication. 

Daniel  Lyddy  paid  a  feeling  compliment  to  the  honesty  and 
worth  of  Mr.  Greeley,  and  declared  that  his  life  was  a  bright 
example  to  the  youth  of  America.  On  motion  of  Roswell  D.  Hatch, 
a  committee  of  fifty  was  chosen  to  attend  the  funeral  of  Mr.  Gree- 
ley. The  Chairman  appointed  the  following  committee  of  five  in 
accordance  with  the  resolutions  : 

F.  M.  Bixby,  Roswell  D.  Hatch,  R.  D.  Nooney,  H.  L.  Clinton, 
and  S.  G.  Courtney. 

THE    LIBERAL    CLUB. 

The  members  of  the  Liberal  Club,  of  which  Mr.  Greeley  was 


48  MEMORIAL   OF  HORACE   GREELEY. 

President,  assembled  at  the  rooms  of  the  Club,  in  the  Plympton 
Building,  on  Saturday  evening.  W.  L.  Ormsby,  Vice-President, 
was  in  the  chair.  Near  the  speaker's  desk  was  a  large  photograph  of 
Mr.  Greeley,  appropriately  draped.  A  basket  of  beautiful  flowers, 
intended  for  presentation  to  the  family  of  the  deceased,  was  on  a 
table  near  by.  Charles  P.  Whitemun  offered  the  following  resolu- 
tions : 

Whereas,  The  sad  announcement  has  has  been  made  to  us  of  the  sudden 
death  of  the  lion.  Horace  Greeley,  the  President  of  our  Societ}',  and  one  of  its 
first  promoters,  trustees,  and  incorporators  ; 

Bemlved,  That  we  recognize  in  tliis  event  tlie  loss,  not  only  to  our  country 
but  to  the  world,  of  one  of  its  purest  and  most  devoted  and  efficient  servants 
of  liberty,  civilization,  and  humanity — one  whose  death  tlie  people  at  large  may 
well  mourn  as  that  of  a  friend  ;  that  his  noble  and  long-continued  services  in 
enlightened  and  independent  journalism,  in  education,  in  the  promotion  of  in- 
dustry and  labor,  in  science  and  art — indeed,  in  all  that  could  add  to  the 
strength  and  glory  of  man — call  upon  the  well-w  ishers  of  all  to  join  with  the 
slave  and  the  oppressed  in  blessings  upon  his  name. 

liesohed,  That  this  sad  intelligence  has  fallen  upon  the  members  of  this 
Society  witli  the  weight  and  sorrow  of  a  personal  affliction,  for  he  was  one  of 
us,  and  many  of  us  liad  learned  to  look  to  him  as  a  fother,  defender,  and  friend. 
We  can  not  forget  tliat  his  strong  name  and  hand  sustained  us  in  our  infancy, 
and  we  cherish  among  our  richest  treasures  tlie  memory  of  his  life,  to  the  pub- 
lic so  useful — to  his  friends  so  hope-inspiring  and  precious.  We  rejoice  that  it 
was  our  lot  to  know  him — the  tireless  editor,  tlie  wise  adviser,  the  liberal- 
hearted  thinker  and  inquner,  and  that  in  these  qualities  and  their  results  he 
will  continue  among  us,  and  live  and  work  forever. 

liesohed,  That  we  tender  our  heartfelt  condolence  to  his  afflicted  children 
and  family,  and  venture  to  ask  that  they  allow  the  bitterness  of  their  grief  to 
be  softened  by  tlie  sympathy  of  the  people,  who  join  in  their  sorrow,  and  the 
remembrance  of  a  life  which  can  not  cease  to  bless  the  world  and  ennoble  those 
whose  privilege  it  was  to  minister  to  us  and  enjoy  its  love. 

Resolved,  Tliat  these  resolutions  be  entered  upon  our  minutes,  and  be  pre- 
sented to  the  famil}^  of  the  deceased. 

Addresses  were  delivered  by  Messrs.  "Whiteman,  Hitchcock, 
Gardner,  Dr.  Lambert,  Dr.  Shepherd  (who  gave  reminiscences  of 
Mr.  Greeley),  Evans,  and  others.  The  resolutions  were  adopted,  and 
a  committee  of  five  was  appointed  to  present  them,  with  the  basket 
of  flowers,  to  the  family  of  the  deceased. 

THE    LINCOLN    CLUB. 

A  special  meeting  of  the  Lincoln  Club  was  held  on  Monday  even- 
ing at  the  Club  rooms.  No.  20  East  Twenty-first  Street.  Alderman 
D.  D.  Conover  presided,  and  Ashcr.  Barnett  acted  as  Secretary. 


THE   LFNCOLN   CLUB.  49 

General  Palmer  moved  that  a  committee  be  appointed  to  prepare 
resolutions  expressive  of  the  feelings  of  the  members  of  the  Club 
in  relation  to  the  death  of  Mr.  Greeley. 

The  chairman  appointed  as  such  committee  General  Palmer,  ex- 
Judge  Fithian,  C.  T.  Polhamus,  the  Hon.  Thomas  E.  Stewart,  and 
General  John  Cochrane,     The  following  resolutions  were  offered : 

Resolved,  That  in  the  decease  of  our  late  fellow-citizen,  Horace  Greeley,  the 
members  of  the  Lincoln  Club  are  called  upon  to  lament  and  deplore  the  loss  of 
an  esteemed  associate  and  friend,  in  whose  honor  and  integrity  they  ever 
placed  the  most  implicit  confidence,  and  whose  personal  relations  as  member 
of  the  Club  were  of  that  most  happy  character  which  made  his  genial  pres; 
ence  at  their  rooms  ever  hailed  with  the  highest  emotions  of  appreciation  and 
pleasure  by  its  members. 

Besolved,  That  to  the  memory  of  Horace  Greeley,  whose  purity  of  life, 
nobility  of  character,  and  integrity  of  purpose,  were  blended  the  warmest  and 
most  generous  impulses  of  humanity,  we  owe  and  accord  our  highest  tribute 
of  esteem  and  respect. 

Resolved,  That  the  action  of  the  Lincoln  Club  in  extending  to  Mr.  Greeley 
the  use  of  its  rooms  as  his  home  during  the  recent  political  canvass,  and  his  ac- 
ceptance of  the  hospitalities  of  the  Club  as  its  honored  guest,  will  ever  be  re- 
membered and  cherished  by  its  members  as  the  brightest  event  chronicled  upon 
the  pages  of  its  history. 

Besolved,  That,  with  the  bereaved  members  of  his  family  and  the  millions 
of  mourning  friends  throughout  the  nation,  we  unite  in  expression  of  sincere 
regret  and  tenderest  sympathy  in  their  and  our  common  loss. 

Resolved,  That,  as  an  humble  acknowledgment  of  our  loss  and  a  fitting 
tribute  of  respect  to  the  memory  of  our  departed  brother  and  friend,  the  rooms 
of  the  Club  be  draped  in  mourning,  and  that  the  members  attend  in  a  body 
his  obsequies. 

Resolved,  That  these  resolutions  be  entered  in  the  minutes,  and  be  properly 
engrossed  and  framed,  and  placed  in  the  rooms  of  the  Lincoln  Club  in  memn- 
riam. 

General  Palmer  and  ex-Judge  Fithian  made  feeling  allusions  to 
the  memory  of  the  deceased,  recounting  the  main  features  of  hi.s 
.life  and  the  many  public  acts  with  which  he  had  been  identified. 
The  resolutions  were  adopted  unanimously.  The  members  of  the 
Club  will  attend  the  funeral  in  a  body,  wearing  suitable  mourning 
badges.  The  members  of  the  Liberal  Republican  General  Com- 
mittee were  invited  to  participate  with  the  Lincoln  Club  in  this  duty. 
Suitable  floral  decorations  will  be  presented  to  the  family  of  the 
deceased. 

THE    ARCADIAN    CLTTB. 

A  special  meeting  of  the  Executive  Council  of  the  Arcadian 

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60  MEMORIAL   OF   HORACE   GREELEY. 

Club   was   held   on  Monday,  and  the  following  resolutions  were 
adopted : 

Whereas,  The  Arcadian  Club  is  again  called  upon  to  mourn  the  loss  of 
another  leader  in  American  journalism,  and  that  within  so  brief  a  period  after 
the  demise  of  the  pioneer  jounialist  of  New  York,  James  Gordon  Bennett ; 

ResolvecL  That  in  the  death  of  Horace  Greeley,  the  founder  and  editor  of 
the  New  York  Tribune,  the  members  of  the  Arcadian  Club  recognize,  in  com- 
mon with  their  fellow-citizens,  the  necessity  of  pajing  a  proper  tribute  to  the 
memory  of  a  good,  true,  and  upright  man,  and  especially  deplore  his  loss  to  a 
profession  which  his  integrity  and  adherence  to  principles  so  steadfastly 
adorned. 

Resolved,  That  not  alone  does  journalism  sustain  a  loss  in  his  death,  but 
that,  as  the  defender  of  the  oppressed  and  the  friend  of  common  humanit)', 
his  taking  oif  has  been  a  loss  to  those  who  sympathize  with  the  better  instincts 
of  mankind. 

Resolved,  That  the  Executive  Council  and  the  members  of  the  Arcadian 
Club  attend  the  funeral  of  the  deceased  in  a  body. 

THE    UXION   LEAGUE    CLUB. 

A  special  meeting  of  the  Union  League  Club  was  held  at  the 
club-house,  in  Madison  Avenue,  on  Monday  evening.  S.  H.  Wales 
l^resided.  Addresses  eulogistic  of  the  virtues  of  their  late  associate 
were  delivered  by  Judge  Fancher,  the  Hon.  Chauncey  M.  Depew, 
the  Rev.  O.  B.  Frothingham,  the  Hon.  Stewart  L,  Woodford,  the 
Hon.  William  Orton,  Samuel  J.  Glassey,  and  James  H.  Titus.  A 
committee  of  five,  consisting  of  the  Hon.  William  Orton,  Jackson 
S.  Schultz,  Sinclair  Tousey,  Henry  Clews,  and  J.  M.  Bundy,  was 
appointed  to  prepare  suitable  resolutions.  The  Committee  presented 
the  following,  which  were  unanimously  adopted  : 

The  members  of  the  Union  League  Club  doubly  feel  the  great 
afBiction  which  has  visited  them  in  the  removal  of  one  of  their  oldest 
and  most  distinguished  associates,  Horace  Greeley.  An  eai'l)'^  and 
prominent  member  of  this  Club,  and  one  of  the  most  earnest  advo- 
cates of  the  great  principles,  in  the  support  of  which  we  have  all 
labored,  his  death  recalls  to  us  the  great  work  which  he  so  largely 
aided  to  accomplish  in  the  enfranchisement  and  elevation  of  an 
enslaved  race,  and  in  the  enlightenment  of  public  opinion.  Among 
the  great  conflicts  of  the  i)ast  generation,  and  in  the  support  of  all 
reformatory  measures,  we  recognize  now,  as  we  always  have  recog- 
nized, the  traits  of  mind  and  character  which  have  made  our  departed 
associate  a  power  in  the  land ;  his  energy,  industry,  and  "unspotted 
moral  character ;  his   sympathy  with  the  poor  and   oppressed;  his 


THE  HEEALD   CLUB.  51 

fearless  advocacy  of  all  good  causes,  and  devotion  to  whatever 
tended  to  enhance  the  prosperity  and  to  conduce  to  the  general  ele- 
vation and  intellectual  progress  of  his  CMxntry.  In  the  presence  of 
the  overwhelming  affliction  which  has  come  down  upon  us,  we  for- 
get all  recent  political  events  and  discussions,  and  remember  only 
the  great  services  of  our  departed  associate  to  the  country  and  to 
mankind,  and  especially  do  we  tender  our  warmest  sympathies  to  the 
doubly-bereaved  children  of  a  great  and  representative  American. 

Resolved,  That  the  President  be  requested  to  appoint  a  committee  of  twenty 
members  of  the  Club  to  attend  the  funeral  of  the  deceased. 

Appended  are  the  names  of  the  committee  appointed  by  the 
Chairman :  Jackson  S.  Schultz,  Isaac  Sherman,  Lansing  C.  Moore, 
E.  L.  Fancher,  John  H.  Van  Allen,  George  W.  Blunt,  Sinclair  Tousey, 
R.  M.  Strebeigh,  O.  D  Munn,  J.  M.  Bundy,  Peter  Cooper,  Charles 
Watrous,  Elliott  C.  Cowden,  Chauncey  M.  Depew,  Thomas  C.  Acton, 
W.  H.  Fogg,  John  A.  C.  Gray,  Levi  A.  Dowley,  Dorman  B.  Eaton, 
D.  F.  Appleton,  S.  H.  Wales. 

THE    HERALD    CLUB. 

The  Herald  Club  met  at  the  Herald  office,  on  Saturday  after- 
noon, to  take  action  with  reference  to  Mr.  Greeley's  death.  Thomas 
B.  Counery  presided,  and  addresses  were  made  by  him,  Dr.  G.  B. 
Wallis,  D.  A  Levien,  F.  G.  de  Fontaine.  Messi-s.  Fitzpatrick,  de  Fon- 
taine, and  Flynn  were  appointed  a  committee  to  make  arrangements 
to  attend  the  funeral,  and  the  following  resolutions  were  adopted  : 

Whereas,  A  great  and  eminently  distinguished  American  journalist  lias  been 
removed  from  among  us  by  the  hand  of  death  ;  and,  whereas,  in  his  death  we 
deplore  the  loss,  in  common  with  the  whole  nation,  of  a  great  and  a  good  man, 
a  brilliant  journalist,  an  eminent  political  philosopher,  a  Christian  gentleman, 
and  a  good  citizen  ;  it  is  therefore 

Resolved,  That  we,  the  New  York  Herald  Club,  sincerely  offer  to  the  family 
of  the  great  dead,  and  to  the  nation,  so  untimely  deprived  of  the  presence  of 
one  of  its  most  brilliant  ornaments,  our  heartfelt  sjnnpathy ;  and 

Resolved,  That  in  the  death  of  Horace  Greeley,  the  founder  of  the  Tribune, 
following  so  quickly  that  of  James  Gordon  Bennett,  the  founder  of  the  Herald, 
the  country  and  American  journalism  have  suffered  a  well-nigh  irreparable  loss. 

Resolved,  That,  as  a  further  testimonial  of  our  respect  for  the  memory  of  our 
distinguished  and  lamented  co-laborer  in  the  field  of  journalism,  the  members 
of  this  Club  will  attend  his  funeral,  and  that  a  suitably  engrossed  copy  of  these 
resolutions  be  furnished  to  the  surviving  members  of  his  family. 

THE    LOTOS    CLUB. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Directory  of  the  Lotos  Club,  held  on  Mon- 
day evening,  the  following  resolutions  were  unanimously  adopted : 

^'BRAI?Y     


52  MEMORIAL   OF   HORACE    GREELEY. 

Hesolved,  That  we  have  heard  with  the  deepest  regret  of  the  death  of  Hor- 
ace Greeley,  the  founder,  and  for  manj'  3'ears  editor  of  the  New  York  Tribnne, 
a  life-long  and  earnest  laborer  in  behalf  of  human  liberty  and  social  progress ; 
that  in  this  sad  event  journalisi©  in  the  city  of  his  adoption,  and  throughout 
the  whole  country,  has  sustained  an  irreparable  loss,  and  that  his  career  may 
be  cited  as  a  shining  example  of  the  great  good  that  may  be  wrought  by  un- 
wearied devotion  to  the  highest  interests  of  civilization. 

Resolved,  That  we  tender  our  most  heartfelt  sympathy  to  the  relatives  and 
personal  friends  of  the  deceased,  and  trust  that  the  deep  sorrow  which  has 
fallen  upon  them  will  be  mitigated  by  the  remembrance  of  the  many  great  and 
good  works  he  accomplished  in  his  long  and  well-spent  life.  His  death  is  not 
alone  their  bereavement,  but  is  equally  that  of  his  country  and  of  the  whole 
human  race. 

THE    JEFFERSOX    CLFB. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  JeiFerson  Club  the  following  expression  of 
respect  for  Mr.  Greeley's  memory  was  adopted  : 

With  sad  and  heavy  hearts  the  Jeiferson  Club  unite  in  the  uni- 
versal expression  of  grief  for  the  death  of  Horace  Greeley.  His 
life  was  an  honorable  record  of  the  faithful  and  beneficent  exercise 
of  the  highest  qualities  with  which  the  Creator  has  endowed  man- 
kind. His  great  natural  gifts  were  trained  and  cultivated  by  wide 
and  persistent  use,  and  he  added  to  them  a  comprehensive  knowl- 
edofe,  constantly  gathered  in  the  Avide  and  useful  field  in  which  his 
talents  w^ere  employed.  To  this  great  intellectual  power,  recognized 
wherever  our  language  is  spoken,  was  united  an  ever-present  hu- 
manity, that  knew  no  distinction  of  class,  or  race,  or  color,  or  creed. 
Whether  it  was  the  necessity  of  an  individual  or  the  welfare  of  a 
class,  his  heart  was  always  open  to  any  act  or  movement  that  -would 
promote  the  interests  of  others.  He  labored  for  all;  it  is  fitting 
that  all  should  mourn  for  him. 

THE    TAMMANY    SOCIETY. 

A  meeting  of  the  Tammany  Society,  or  the  Columbian  Order, 
was  held  on  Monday  evening,  at  the  Wigwam,  in  Fourteenth  Street. 
Among  those  present  were  John  Fox,  Wm.  C.  Conner,  Miles  B,  An- 
drews, E.  L.  Donnelly,  J.  W.  Chanler,  Judges  Leonard  and  Barber, 
and  many  others.  Augustus  SchcU  presided  at  the  meeting.  The 
following  declaration  of  the  sentiments  of  the  Society,  oftered  by 
Algernon  S.  Sullivan,  and  seconded  by  the  Hon.  John  Kelly,  was 
adopted : 

The  Society  of  Tammany,  or  the  Columbian  Order,  was  organ- 
ized to  keep  alive  the  patriot  flame  in  the  breasts  of  all  American 


NEW   YORK   TYPOGRAPHICAL   SOCIETY.  53 

citizens,  and  tlie  Society  lias  always  been  prompt  to  honor  the  name 
and  fame  of  those  who  were  eminent  in  their  character  and  services 
in  the  State.  A  just  tribute  to  the  living  and  unfading  laurels  to 
the  honored  dead  has  ever  been  rendered  in  these  halls,  and  now, 
when  the  death  of  Horace  Greeley  has  been  announced,  we  ap- 
proach his  tomb  and  reverently  lay  thereon  our  chaplet. 

In  the  best  and  broadest  sense  of  the  word  he  was  a  philanthro- 
pist ;  his  very  patriotism  was  an  expression  of  a  desire  to  promote 
the  happiness  of  his  fellow-men.  He  loved  justice,  and  therefore, 
of  course,  loved  liberty  and  equality  for  every  man.  He  was  never 
a  slave  of  party,  but  a  man  whose  conscience  gave  him  individual- 
ity and  independence.  The  controlling  characteristics  of  his  life 
were  rectitude  and  active  effort  for  progress  and  benevolence. 

For  all  this,  and  for  his  courageous,  tender-hearted  appeals  to 
his  countrymen  to  uproot  the  spirit  of  discord  and  to  bring  back 
the  feeling  of  brotherhood  in  our  beloved  country,  we  to-night  in- 
scribe his  name  in  bright  letters  on  the  scroll  of  America's  most  il- 
lustrious and  patriotic  dead. 

The  following  resolutions  were  adopted : 

Besolved,  That  ia  the  death  of  Horace  Greeley  we  lament  the  loss  of  one  ol 
the  great  founders  of  modern  journalism,  who  has  done  much  to  create  that 
wonderful  social  and  political  institution;  a  public  man  of  immense  and  varied 
intellectual  powers,  ever  wielded  with  intense  energy  of  conviction  for  ob- 
jects wliich  he  believed  for  the  good  of  mankind  ;  a  private  citizen,  virmous 
in  all  the  relations  of  life,  humane,  charitable,  and  full  of  kindly  deeds ;  the 
crowning  glory  of  whose  career  will  remain  that  ever  since  the  conflict  of 
arms  ceased  he  has  inflexibly  stood  for  a  complete  reconciliation  among  the 
people ;  and  further 

Besolved,  That  while  we  feel  a  profound  sense  of  public  calamit}^  in  the 
event  we  deplore,  we  condole  with  his  relatives  in  their  afflicting  bereavement. 

THE    NEW    YORK    TYPOGRAPHICAL    SOCIETY. 

A  meeting  of  the  Xew  York  Typographical  Society  was  held  on 
Saturday  evening,  at  its  rooms,  to  take  action  in  reference  to  the 
death  of  Mr.  Greeley.  H.  Bessy  was  in  the  chair,  and  T.  C.  Faulk- 
ner acted  as  secretary.     The  following  were  adopted : 

Whereas,  The  mournful  intelligence  of  the  death  of  Horace  Greeley,  found- 
er and  editor  of  The  New  York  Tribune,  has  elicited  a  spontaneous  and  uni- 
versal expression  of  regret  at  his  sudden  removal  from  the  scene  of  his  long 
and  useful  labors ;  and 

Whereas,  The  craft  of  which  he  was  an  early,  diligent,  and  honored  mem- 
ber owes  to  his  example  many  of  the  incitements  to  that  exertion  which  has 
tsecm-ed  its  prosperity ;  therefore 


54  ,  MEMORIAL   OF   HORACE   GREELEY. 

Resolved,  That  the  New  York  Typographical  Society  unites  in  the  •warni 
tributes  which  have  been  paid  to  tlie  memory  of  Mr.  Greeley,  and  hereby  re- 
cords its  sense  of  his  invaluable  services,  not  only  to  the  printing  art,  but  to 
the  journalism  of  the  country,  and  to  the  vital  interests  which  constitute  the 
strength  and  insure  the  welfare  of  the  American  people. 

Bevolved,  That  in  the  death  of  3Ir.  Greeley  we  deplore  the  loss  of  a  man 
whose  courageous  struggle  with  adverse  circumstances  in  early  youth,  and 
Avhose  diligent  and  well-directed  efforts  in  maturer  years,  have  taught  a  lesson 
to  American  youth  which  can  never  be  unlearned. 

Remlved,  That,  as  a  mark  of  resi)ect  to  the  memory  of  our  late  fellow-mem- 
ber, these  preambles  and  resolutions  be  published  in  the  daily  journals  of  this 
cit3%  and  that  a  certified  copy  thereof  be  transmitted  to  the  family  of  Mr. 
Greeley. 

Resolved,  That  the  banner  of  the  Society  be  draped  in  mourning,  and  that 
the  members  attend  the  funeral  in  a  body. 

William  Oland  Bourne  spoke  as  follows : 

Mr.  Pkesidext  :  There  are  occasions  in  the  experience  of  every 
life  when  silence,  in  its  mute  eloquence,  is  the  best  expression  of 
the  emotions  of  a  heart  moved  with  its  joys  or  its  sorrows,  and  es- 
pecially is  this  the  case  when,  in  the  order  of  Providential  dealings, 
great  calamities  reach  the  deepest  sensibilities  of  the  soul.  Some 
events  move  the  sympathies  of  small  circles  of  associations  and  rel- 
atives, but  not  infrequently  an  event  occurs  when  the  circle  is 
measured  only  by  national  limits,  or  even  world-wide  interests. 
We  have  met  to-nio;ht  to  take  recognition  of  an  event  which  affects 
us  in  common  with  our  whole  country,  and  in  which — as  the  tele- 
graphic line  should  flash  the  intelligence  as  it  thrills  around  the 
world,  and  the  countless  winged  messengers  of  the  press  should 
unfold  the  sad  dispensation  of  an  over-ruling  Providence — new 
hearts  will  be  burdened  with  sorrow,  and  new  eyes  will  be  dimmed 
with  tears,  until  the  wide  circle  of  human  sympathy  shall  be 
reached  wherever  the  name  of  Horace  Greeley  has  been  learned  as 
the  heroic  advocate  of  hnman  rights,  the  generous  and  earnest 
pleader  for  the  oppressed,  and  the  ever-ready  and  ever-willing  la- 
borer for  the  lowly  and  the  obscure. 

Our  friend  and  associate,  Horace  Greeley,  rests  from  his  labors. 
Born  to  poverty,  with  a  rough  and  stern  experience  in  his  early 
years,  he  entered  a  printing-otiice  to  learn  the  craft,  of  which  he  be- 
came so  eminent  an  ornament,  and  among  whose  distinguished 
names  his  own  will  ever  stand  as  one  of  its  most  illustrious  exam- 
ples. With  a  mind  that  could  not  rest  satisfied  with  the  mere 
mechanism  of  the  art,  or   the  simple  manual   achievement   of  his 


KEW   YOEK   TYPOGRAPHICAL  SOCIETY.  55 

daily  task,  his  hours  were  devoted  to  the  acquisition  of  knowledge, 
which  became  in  his  hand  a  power  of  which  we  are  witnesses,  and 
of  which  we  to-day  are  sharing  the  benefits.  Step  by  step  sur- 
mounting the  difficulties  before  him,  never  daunted,  self-reliant  and 
heroic,  he  pursued  his  onward  path  until  his  great  powers  of  mind 
and  his  treasures  of  acquired  fact  became  recognized  by  those  who 
knew  him,  and  by  the  public  who  learned  to  read  the  productions 
of  his  pen.  The  effort  to  place  himself  in  a  positive  position  as  an 
affirmative  toiler  in  the  great  arena  of  our  country's  interests,  and 
the  hopeful  tendencies  of  a  better  day,  found  experience  in  Tlie 
Th'ibune,  which  has  for  thirty  years  wielded  so  vast  a  power  in  the 
affairs  of  the  land  of  his  birth. 

Mr.  Greeley's  history  is  identified  with  the  history  of  our  coun- 
try, in  all  the  controversies  of  the  last  generation,  and  the  decision 
of  the  grandest  problem  of  an  American  civilization.  His  services 
in  the  cause  of  freedom  can  not  be  overestimated,  and  the  boldness, 
firmness,  and  tenacity  of  purpose  Math  which  he  advocated  the 
policy  of  emancipation,  and  the  justice,  expediency  and  commercial 
advantages  of  free  labor  served  to  educate  hundreds  of  thousands 
of  the  young  men  of  the  country  up  to  the  standard  where  they 
were  prepared  to  meet  the  conflict  when  it  came  with  the  heroism 
that  resulted  in  breaking  the  shackles  of  4,000,000  of  men,  and  plac- 
ing them  on  the  high  plane  of  American  citizenship.  It  would  be 
impossible,  in  the  brief  tribute  to  his  labors  which  this  occasion  can 
permit,  to  weigh  with  even  approximate  estimate  the  power  which 
our  honored  friend  has  exerted  on  the  mind  of  the  country  through 
his  press,  and  his  wonderful  industry  as  an  author  and  speaker. 
Whether  on  the  platform,  at  political  assemblies,  or  as  a  lecturer 
before  lyceums  and  literary  institutions,  his  labors  were  incessant, 
and  the  promptitude  and  fidelity  with  which  his  engagements  were 
kept  added  to  the  influence  of  his  political  teachings,  his  jDrofound 
views,  and  his  benevolent  discharge  of  these  very  often  unrewarded 
services.  Since  he  issued  the  first  number  of  The  THhune,  more 
than  300  men  have  filled  the  chair  of  Governor  of  the  various  States 
and  Territories  of  the  Union,  and  yet  Horace  Greeley,  by  the  power 
of  his  pen,  his  press,  and  his  tongue,  has  done  more  than  all  to 
elevate  humanity,  give  momentum  to  lofty  and  progressive  ideas, 
and  stamp  the  impress  of  a  better  humanity  upon  his  age.  His  work 
will  live  and  be  remembered  long  after  this  age  shall  have  given 
way  to  another,  which  shall  realize  some  of  the  fruits  of  his  noble  toil. 


56  MEMOEIAL   OF   HORACE   GREELEY. 

TVo  enter  sadly  upon  our  records  to-night  the  memorial  of  the 
departure  of  our  friend  and  associate.  The  genial  and  s'ncere  sym- 
pathizer with  all  who  aimed  to  make  his  profession  and  liis  craft 
useful  and  more  powerful  and  dignified  ;  he  who  illustrated  in  his 
own  life  and  character  the  highest  and  best  aims  of  a  truly  self-made 
man ;  who  braved  all  obstacles  ;  who,  true  to  his  convictions,  spoke 
them  until  the  nation  came  up  to  the  same  standard ;  and  who,  at 
last,  received  from  his  bitterest  enemies  the  homage  of  their  sur- 
render to  him,  and  their  adoption  of  the  principles  he  had  so  long 
advocated ;  the  tender  and  loving  husband  and  father — tlie  patriot, 
the  philanthropist,  and  the  friend  of  the  oppressed — our  friend, 
Horace  Greeley,  sleeps.  His  work  is  ended,  and  as  we  join  in  our 
tribute  to  his  labors,  we  may  well  learn  lessons  of  lofty  aspiration, 
of  endurance,  and  of  virtue,  from  his  life — and  with  profound  sorrow 
do  honor  to  the  illustrious  dead. 

THE  YOUNG  men's  universalist  association. 
A  meeting  of  the  Young  Men's  Universalist  Association  was  held 
on  Monday  evening  at  the  Fifth  Universalist  Church,  Thirty-fifth 
Street,  near  Sixth  Avenue.  The  following  resolutions  were  otiered 
by  the  Rev.  Mr.  Sweetzer  in  commemoration  of  their  late  associate, 
Mr.  Horace  Greeley,  and  seconded  by  the  Rev.  J.  M.  Pullman : 

IVhereas,  in  the  all-wise  Providence  of  God  this  Association  has  latclj'^  lost 
from  its  midst  the  earthly  form  and  presence  of  one  of  its  most  honored  mem- 
bers, the  Hon.  Horace  Greele}^  its  first  life-member,  its  steadfast  servant,  and 
its  faithful  friend;  tlierefore, 

Besoh-ed,  That  while  we  recognize  the  hand  of  God  in  this  event,  and 
linmbly  bow  to  His  rigliteous  will,  we  deepl}-  mourn  for  the  loss  which  it  en- 
tails upon  us,  n!it  only  as  an  Association  called  to  part  with  a  strong  supporter 
and  able  counselor,  but  as  individuals  called  to  part  with  a  beloved  comrade 
and  trusted  friend. 

liesolved,  That  we  remember  with  gratitude  and  lawful  pride  the  eminent 
services  which  he  has  rendered  to  the  cause  for  which  this  body  stands — his 
life-long  devotion  to  the  truth  of  Universalism  ;  his  constant  willingness  to  do 
all  in  his  power  to  promote  its  interests ;  his  numerous  contributions  to  its 
literature;  his  regular  attendance  at  its  place  of  worsliip;  and,  most  of  all,  his 
open,  manly,  Christian  life,  so  full  of  the  spirit  of  our  blessed  faith  that  his 
countenance  shone  with  it  and  his  daily  walk  was  ordered  by  it. 

liesolced.  That  we  rejoice  to  sec  as  a  sign  of  the  times  that  clergymen  of 
every  school  unite  to  speak  his  sincere  praise  and  acknowledge  his  Christian 
character. 

Resolved,  That  1 1 is  efforts  as  a  philanthropist,  his  consecration  to  the  cause 
of  human  liberty,  his  championship  of  equal  rights  for  all  mankind,  his  out- 


AMERICAN   INSTITUTE.  57 

spoken  hatred  of  all  sorts  of  oppression,  his  tender  sympathy  with  the  weak 
and  injured,  and  his  increasing  endeavors  to  bring  about  the  reign  of  equity 
and  peace  on  earth,  deserve  the  attention  of  all  men  everywhere,  and  reflect 
great  credit  on  his  soul. 

Resolved,  That  being  dead  he  yet  speaketh,  and  that  we  urge  the  young  men 
of  the  land  especially  to  give  earnest  heed  to  the  lessons  of  his  noble  lile,  that 
they  may  learn  to  depend  for  success  upon  integrity  of  purpose,  faithfulness  in 
execution,  and  strict  attention  to  the  call  of  duty;  not  to  despair  in  the  day  of 
small  things,  not  to  make  haste  to  be  rich  or  famous  or  great  in  a  moment ;  but 
to  bend  to  the  work  which  lies  before  them,  as  he  did  in  his  early  manhood, 
waiting  patiently  on  the  Lord  and  trusting  in  Him  to  reward  at  last  with 
greater  things  those  who  are  faithful  in  the  least  beginnings  of  what  He  has 
given  them  to  do. 

Besolved,  Th«it  we  sympathize  with  his  orphan  children  in  their  bereavement, 
and  that  our  hearts  seek  their  hearts  with. a  yearning  to  help  them  in  their 
heavy  burden,  and  so  fulfill  the  law  of  Christ. 

Besolved,  That  the  members  of  this  Association  attend  the  funeral  of  the  de- 
ceased in  a  body,  and  that  these  resolutions  be  entered  on  the  minutes  of  the 
Association,  and  that  a  copy  of  the  same  be  sent  to  the  afflicted  family. 

THE    AMERICAN    INSTITUTE. 

A  special  meeting  of  the  American  Institute  was  held  on  Tues- 
day at  the  Cooper  Institute,  to  take  action  in  regard  to  the  death  of 
Mr.  Greeley,  its  late  President.  Pres.  F.  A.  P.  Barnard  (of  Colum- 
bia College)  occupied  the  chair,  and  in  opening  the  proceedings 
commended  Mr.  Greeley's  conduct  of  The  Tnbu?ie,  which  he  had 
made  a  jDOwer  in  the  land  by  his  conscientiousness  and  ability.  The 
Tribune  had  prospered  because,  from  beginning  to  end,  it  contained 
nothing  that  was  base.  Mr.  Greeley,  as  a  journalist,  stood  pre- 
eminent. Unlike  many  others,  he  Avrote  on  nothing  Avhich  he  did 
not  understand.  This  was  because  there  was  hardly  anything 
which  he  did  not  understand.  His  zeal  in  acquiring  information 
was  remarkable.  Dr.  Samuel  Johnson  said  of  Goldsmith  that  there 
was  nothing  he  touched  he  did  not  adorn.  Of  Horace  Greeley  it 
might  be  said  that  there  was  nothing  he  saw  which  he  did  not 
master.  He  was  philanthropic,  yet  there  was  a  good  principle 
underlying  his  philanthropy,  and  that  was  this  :  "  I  will  do  all  in  my 
power  to  help  a  man  to  help  himself"  Summing  up  all  his  qualities, 
"  He  was  a  man,  taken  for  all  in  all,  we  ne'er  shall  look  upon  his 
like  again." 

The  following  resolutions  were  then  read  by  S.  D.  Tillman,  and 
adopted : 

Whei'eas,  The  Supreme  Disposer  of  events,  whose  ways  are  not  our  ways, 


68  MEMOEIAL   OF   nORACE    GREELEY. 

and  whose  thoughts  are  not  our  thoughts,  in  liis  inscmtable  •wisdom,  has  seen 
fit  to  remove  from  among  us  by  death  our  eminent  fellow-citizen  Horace  Gree- 
ley, formerly  President  of  this  Institute — a  man  whose  personal  history  has  for 
the  last  forty  years  been  intimately  interwoven  with  the  history  of  the  country 
in  every  department  of  political  and  social  life,  in  every  branch  of  benevolent 
effort,  and  in  every  comprehensive  measure  looking  to  industrial  improvement ; 
therefore, 

licmh'cd,  That  we,  as  members  of  an  organization  designed  to  cherish  and 
improve  the  arts  of  civilizaticm,  and  to  encourage  the  advancement  of  practical 
science,  objects  to  which  Mr.  Greelej'-  was  deeply  devoted,  desire  to  record  our 
profound  sense  of  the  heavy  calamity  which  society  has  suffered  in  his  loss — 
a  calamity  which  will  be  especially  felt  in  the  interests  which  our  Institute  rep- 
resents, and  of  which  he  was  the  earnest,  zealous,  consistent,  and  persevering 
advocate  throughout  his  busy  and  useful  life. 

Hc'solved,  That  the  prominent  traits  in  the  character  of  Mr.  Greeley,  his 
simplicity,  his  sincerity,  his  kindness  of  heart,  his  honesty  of  purpose,  his  de- 
votion to  the  right  as  he  understood  it,  his  passionate  love  of  liberty,  and 
hatred  of  oppression,  his  generous  championship  of  the  cause  of  the  helpless 
and  oppressed,  together  with  the  many  striking  facts  attending  his  early  self- 
training  and  subsequent  remarkable  career,  his  eager  craving  for  knowledge 
and  patience  in  its  acquisition,  his  resolute  struggle  against  difficulties,  his 
manly  self-reliance,  his  sturdy  self-denial,  his  untiring  industry,  and  his  uncon- 
querable perseverance,  combine  to  make  his  example  one  proper  to  be  held  up 
to  the  youth  of  all  coming  time,  as  well  worthy  to  be  studied  for  profit  in  all 
things,  and  in  most  things  for  admiration  and  imitation. 

liesolved,  That  in  the  f;ill  of  Mr.  Greeley  there  has  been  extinguished  a 
power  for  good  such  as  has  never  before  in  the  history  of  the  country,  or  per- 
haps of  the  world,  been  wielded  by  a  single  individual  in  private  station ;  a 
power  which  made  itself  distinctly  felt  and  recognized  in  every  hamlet  within 
our  wide  national  domain,  and  even  reached,  directlj''  or  indirectl}',  the 
remotest  confines  of  the  civilized  world. 

liesolved,  That  we  respectfully  tender  to  the  surviving  members  of  the 
fomily  of  our  departed  fellow-citizen  and  friend  the  expression  of  our  sincere 
condolence  and  profound  sympathy  under  tlie  successive  severe  bereavements 
by  wliich  they  have  been  visited,  and  of  which  the  present  is  the  crowning 
trial ;  hoping  and  trusting  that  some  slight  alleviation  of  the  bitterness  of  their 
sorrow  may  be  found  in  the  reflection  that  a  nation  is  mourning  with  them  ; 
and  fervently  praying  that  lie  who  is  a  father  to  the  fatherless  and  the  only  sure 
stay  of  the  afllicted  may  compassionately  poor  out  upcm  them  a  more  adequate 
and  enduring  consolation — a  consolation  which  the  world  can  neither  give  nor 
take  away. 

Eesolvcd,  That  as  a  tribute  of  respect  and  honor  to  the  memory  of  one  who 
was  so  long  a  member  of  our  body,  who  was  for  a  time  our  presiding  officer, 
and  Avas  above  all  so  personally  worthy,  the  members  of  the  Institute  here 
present  will  attend  the  funeral  of  ]\Ir.  Greeley  to-morrow,  at  the  Church  of 
the  Divine  Paternity,  and  will  wear  the  usual  badge  of  mourning  on  the  left 
arm  for  the  period  of  thirty  days. 


THE  FAEMEES'    CLUB.  59 

Resolved,  That  a  suitably  engrossed  and  duly  attested  copy  of  these  resolu- 
tions be  transmitted  by  the  Secretary  to  the  surviving  members  of  Mr.  Gree- 
ley's family. 

Dr.  Horatio  Sheppard,  who  had  been  a  personal  friend  of  Mr. 
Greeley  for  forty  years,  gave  interesting  reminiscences.  Dr.  J.  W. 
Richards,  H.  L.  Stuai't,  and  others  also  addressed  the  meeting.  A 
committee  consisting  of  the  President  and  the  following  was  ap- 
pointed to  represent  the  Institute  at  the  funeral  services  :  J.  E. 
Gavit,  Edward  Walker,  J.  S.  Sackett,  J.  W.  Chambers,  S.  D.  Till- 
man, S.  R.  Comstock,  H.  A.  Burr,  J.  W.  Richards,  Dr.  H.  D. 
Sheppard,  S.  R.  Wells,  Dr.  Q.  R.  K.  Colton,  Dr.  Ott,  J.  S.  Whitney, 
Robert  Weir,  Prof.  R.  J.  Thurston,  George  Tinson,  E.  R.  Dickerson, 
James  Knight,  Charles  W.  Hull,  and  George  Paten. 

THE    farmers'    club. 

The  Farmers'  Club  held  a  regular  meeting,  at  its  hall  in  the 
Cooper  Institute,  on  Tuesday  afternoon.  Nathan  C.  Ely,  who  pre- 
sided, said,  in  part : 

We  meet  here  to-day  with  sorrowful  hearts.  Horace  Greeley 
has  gone  to  reap  a  glorious  life  in  the  hereafter  as  a  reward  for  his 
useful  life  here.  We  shall  no  more  see  him  or  listen  to  his  words  of 
wisdom,  but  though  he  is  dead  his  influence  will  never  die.  No 
man  in  our  land  ever  influenced  so  many,  and  his  influence  was  ever 
exerted  for  the  elevation  of  all  mankind.  Not  only  in  our  land,  but 
throughout  the  world  will  his  memory  be  revered.  What  an  en- 
couragement is  placed  before  the  youth  of  our  land  by  his  career  ! 
Mr.  Greeley  was  one  of  the  earliest  members  of  this  Club,  and  we  all 
award  to  him  and  TTie  Tribune  the  credit  of  doing  more  for  the  Club 
for  many  years  than  all  other  editors  and  newspapers  combined. 
You  know  how  often,  amid  the  avalanche  of  cares  and  business 
crowding  his  great  mind,  he  came  into  our  club-room  bringing  in 
his  countenance  a  benediction  for  all ;  and  his  encouraging  words 
here,  from  time  to  time  uttered,  have  reached  thousands  of  little 
family  circles  in  the  far-distant  settlements  of  our  widely-extended 
country,  and  given  courage  and  contentment,  where  both  Avere  lack- 
ing, to  many  of  the  pioneer  settlers. 

The  following  resolutions,  prepared  by  a  committee  appointed 
for  the  purpose,  were  unanimously  adopted : 

Resolved,  That  in  the  death  of  our  late  associate,  Horace  Groelej',  the  Farm- 
ers' Club  and  the  agricultural  interest  of  the  country  have  lost  a  friend  and 
fellow- worker,  a  teacher  whose  words  were  always  full  of  instruction,  a  sup- 


60  MEMORIAL   OF  IIOllACE   GREELEY. 

porter  whose  efforts  were  never  spared  to  elevate  their  coLclition,  and  one  to 
the  lessons  of  wliose  busy  life  they  are  greatly  indebted. 

Resolved,  That  we  owe  and  gratefully  pay  our  sincere  tribute  of  esteem  and 
tender  regard  to  the  memory  of  him  whom  we  loved  and  honored  during  his 
life,  and  whose  loss  we  now  deplore. 

liesoloed,  That  we,  for  ourselves  and  the  millions  of  farmers  throughout  the 
country  whom  we  claim  to  represent,  tender  our  warmest  S3'mpathy  to  the 
bereaved  relatives  in  their  and  our  common  loss. 

Resolved,  That  these  resolutions  be  entered  on  the  minutes  of  the  Society, 
and  be  suitably  engrossed  and  framed  and  placed  in  the  rooms  of  the  Ameri- 
can Institute  as  a  memorial  of  our  associate. 

P.  T.  Quinn,  in  presenting  these  resolutions,  gave  interesting 
personal  rennniscences  of  Mr,  Greeley,  showing  the  latters  intense 
industry,  and  his  efforts  to  improve  the  methods  of  labor  and  to 
promote  the  welfare  of  farmers. 

L.  A.  Morrell  said :  The  resolutions  which  liave  been  read 
wring  from  me  the  expression  of  an  honest  sorrow,  and  a  heart-felt 
tribute  to  the  memory  of  a  true  man,  whose  untiring  industry, 
self-i'eliance,  moral  example,  and  philanthropy  will  be  classed  in  all 
future  time  with  those  of  Franklin  and  Wilberforce.  My  personal 
acquaintance  with  Mr.  Greeley  dates  back  to  the  period  (1841)  when 
the  New  York  State  Agricultural  Society  was  formed.  His  pale 
and  boy-like  face,  attenuated  form,  clad  in  the  original  drab  over- 
coat, which  for  years  was  the  mark  for  so  much  jesting,  are  now  as 
vivid  in  memory  as  though  it  were  but  yesterday.  But,  in  passing, 
let  me  say  that  it  was  an  honest  coat,  like  its  Avearer,  and  had  been 
paid  for  from  his  hard-wrought  earnings,  at  a  period  when  "  chill 
l)enury  suppressed  the  noble  impulses  of  his  soul."  His  visit  to 
Syracuse,  when  the  first  Fair  of  the  Society  was  held,  was  for  the 
purpose  of  reporting  its  results  for  The  Tribune^  which  a  few  months 
previously  had  been  established,  and  to  which  I  Avas  a  short  time 
after  a  subscriber.  From  its  columns  I  learned  the  evils  of  intem- 
perance and  a  hatred  of  slavery;  the  wisdom  of  fostering  Ameri- 
can industries;  useful  enterprises  calculated  to  augment  national 
and  individual  wealtli ;  cliarity  for  all;  and  that  to  insure  an  honor- 
able name  in  life,  personal  integrity,  industry,  and  self-reliance  were 
the  level's  to  secure  success.  His  personal  example  ratified  the 
truthfulness  of  his  pure  teachings.  His  stern  integrity,  unostenta- 
tious charities,  his  tender,  Avoman-like  sensibilities,  love  for  his  house- 
hold, were  brilliants  in  the  crown  of  his  private  character.  T-'Ong, 
long  after  temples  and  trophies  will  have  moldered  into  dust,  the 


THE  ASSOCIATED   PRESS.  61 

Recording  Angel  will  keep  bright  the  memory  of  his  usefulness  and 
philanthropy. 

Addresses  were  also  delivered  by  H.  E.  Colton,  Di*.  J.  V.  C. 
Smith,  S.  R.  Wells,  and  others, 

THE    KUKAL    CLUB. 

A  special  meeting  of  the  Rural  Club  was  held  on  Tuesday  after- 
noon, at  Hall  No.  24,  Cooper  Union,  to  take  action  in  regard  to  the 
death  of  Mr.  Greeley,  who  had  been  President  of  the  Club  from  tlie 
time  of  its  formation.  Nathan  C.  Ely  presided.  A  committee,  con- 
sisting of  C.  T.  Hulburd,  A.  B.  Crandall,  and  F.  D.  Curtis,  who  had 
been  appointed  to  prejjare  suitable  resolutions,  presented  the  fol- 
lowing, which  were  adopted  : 

Whereas,  By  a  sad  dispensation  of  Providence,  one  of  the  original  founders 
of  this  Club,  and,  when  living,  its  President  from  the  first,  has  been  suddenly 
taken  from  us ; 

Resolved,  That  while  deeply  deploring  this  our  loss,  we  feel  assured  every 
lover  of  rural  life,  where  his  great  name  and  labors  are  known,  will  also  feel 
this  loss  as  that  of  a  constant  friend  and  advocate. 

Resolved,  That  in  the  death  of  Horace  Greeley  the  farmers  and  horticultur- 
ists of  the  world  have  lost  one  who  was  ever  ready  and  desirous,  by  his  voice 
and  his  pen,  to  promote  and  protect  their  interests,  and  while  thus  laboring  for 
their  good,  by  example  and  wise  teaching,  carried  sunshine,  contentment,  and 
prosperity  to  the  firesides  of  thousands. 

Resolved,  That  in  his  death  we  have  all  lost  a  genial,  warm-hearted  friend,- 
agricultural  literature  one  of  its  rarest  and  richest  contributors,  and  the  friends 
of  all  science  and  true  progress  a  generous  supporter  and  most  trustworthy 
champion. 

Resolved,  That  we  tender  the  bereaved  children  and  family  our  most  heart- 
felt sympathies,  and  trust  their  hour  of  anguish  will  be  somewhat  alleviated 
with  the  thought,  that  though  his  pen  is  forever  laid  away,  and  his  mortal  lips 
are  mute  in  the  hush  of  death,  he  still  lives,  and  will  ever  live,  in  the  cherished 
recollections  of  millions  whose  special  burdens  he  strove  to  lessen,  and  whose 
lot  of  toil  he  ever  sought  to  mitigate,  when  he  could  not  brighten  it  altogether. 

Resolved,  That  this  Club  do  attend  the  funeral  services  of  our  deceased 
President. 

Addresses  were  delivered  by  C.  T.  Hulburd,  D.  T.  Moore,  and 
others.  A  committee  of  three,  consisting  of  the  Chairman,  F.  D. 
Curtis,  and  Mr.  Hulburd,  was  appointed  to  obtain  tickets  for  ad- 
mission to  the  church, 

THE    ASSOCIATED    PRESS. 

At  the  regular  monthly  meeting  of  the  Associated  Press,  held  on 


62  MEMORIAL   OF  HOEACE   GREELEY. 

Tuesday,  the  following  resolutions,  offered  by  Erastus  Brooks,  were 
unanimously  adopted : 

liesolmd,  That  we  receive  with  feelings  of  very  deep  sorrow  intelligence  of 
the  death  of  Horace  Greeley,  the  founder  of  The  New  York  Tnbune,  for  more 
than  thirty  years  its  editor-in-chief,  and  one  of  the  original  proprietors  in  the 
organization  of  the  Associated  Press  of  the  country. 

Itesolced,  That  the  newspaper  press  of  the  United  States  loses  in  him  one 
of  its  ablest  conductors,  a  writer  unsurpassed  in  the  purit}'  of  his  English,  in 
clearness  of  e.\])ression,  and  in  concise  and  logical  conclusions  drawn  from  the 
premises  which  he  believed  to  be  founded  in  truth.  In  his  eventful  life  we  see 
the  success  which  followed  earnest  labor,  courageous  action,  and  manly  inde- 
pendence, as  well  as  the  evidence  of  a  temperate,  orderly,  and  well-spent  life. 
We  remember  him,  in  connection  with  our  own  calling,  as  the  fiiithful  appren- 
tice, the  good  printer,  the  accomplished  editor,  and  the  liberal  proprietor. 
Losing  all  this  in  one  for  so  many  years  at  the  head  of  his  profession,  our  loss 
is  second  only  to  that  of  the  public,  in  whose  interests,  in  the  press  of  the 
country  and  in  the  forum  of  debate,  he  labored  for  more  than  forty  yeai's  of  his 
life. 

Resolved,  That  our  profoundest  sympathies  go  out  to  the  daughters  of  our 
late  associate  and  friend  in  their  double  affliction  of  the  loss  of  mother  and 
father  within  a  brief  month,  and  that  we  tender  to  them,  in  their  great  sorrow, 
our  sincere  condolence  and  respect. 

Resolved,  That  the  recent  death  of  three  of  the  oldest  and  most  distinguished 
editors  of  the  journals  of  this  city  admonishes  us  of  the  uncertainty  of  life,  of 
the  instability  of  all  human  affairs,  and  that,  as  daily  teachers  in  and  chroniclers 
of  the  great  transactions  of  the  world,  it  becomes  us  to  be  readj'  to  meet  that 
.  summons  which,  ouly^'a  little  in  advance  of  us,  has  called  home  our  late  friend 
and  brother. 

Resolved,  That  a  copy  of  these  resolutions,  signed  b}'  the  President  and 
Secretary  of  the  Association,  be  forwared  to  the  familj^  of  the  deceased  and 
published  hj  the  Associated  Press. 

Rewlved,  That  the  members  of  this  Association  will  attend  the  funeral  of  the 
deceased  in  a  body.  David  M.  Stone,  President. 

I.  W.  England,  Secretary. 

THE    AMERICAN    PRESS    ASSOCIATIOX. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Directors  of  the  American  Press  Associa- 
tion, ]Mr.  Howard,  of  The  Neio  York  Star,  in  the  chair,  and  Messrs. 
Francis  Wells  (President  of  the  Association),  of  llie  Philaddplda 
Bulletin,  Robert  C.  Dunham,  of  The  Boston  Times,  Robert  John- 
ston, of  The  Eve)ung  Mail,  Geo.  C.  Bartholomew, of  Tlie  Xews,YQo- 
dore  ]Mici-son,  of  21ie  JVew-  Yorker  Journal,  G.  "Wharton  Hammers- 
ley,  of  The  Germantown  Chronicle,  and  Sidney  Dean,  of  The  Provi- 
dence Prehfs,  present,  tlie  following  Avere  adopted : 

Wliereas,  The  death  of  Horace  Greeley  has  removed  from  the  world  a  fore- 


TYPOGEAPHICAL   UNION.  63 

most  champion  of  truth,  the  friend,  par  excellence,  of  his  kind,  a  benefactor  of 
the  race,  and  an  illustrious  exemplar  of  the  possibilities  of  his  country ;  and 

Whereas,  The  profession  of  journalism  has  great  cause  for  grief  in  the  loss 
of  its  chief,  its  sturdiest  writer,  its  constant  defender  and  brightest  star  ;  there- 
fore, 

Resolved,  That  the  Directors  of  the  American  Press  Association  unite  with 
other  members  of  the  craft  in  extending  to  the  family  of  their  dead  friend  their 
hearty  and  most  respectful  sj'mpathy. 

Besolved,  That  to  T7ie  Tribune  staff,  and  more  especially  to  Whitelaw  Reid 
and  Samuel  Sinclair,  they  express  their  appreciation  of  the  great  loss  they  sus- 
tain, and  their  sincere  condolence  with  their  sorrow. 

Besolved,  That  the  Directors  attend  the  funeral  services  in  honor  of  Horace 
Greeley's  memory,  together,  and  that  these  resolutions  be  published  in  the  pa- 
pers of  the  Association,  and  be  sent  also  to  the  family  of  the  deceased,  and  his 
late  associates  in  business.  Joseph  Howakd,  Jr.,  Chairman. 

G.  Wharton  Hamaterslet,  Sectretary. 

TYPOGRAPHICAL   UXIOX   NO.    6. 

The  New  York  Typographical  Union  No.  6,  of  which  Mr.  Gree- 
ley was  the  first  President,  adopted  the  following  resolutions  on 
Tuesday: 

Whereas,  Almighty  God,  in  his  supreme  wisdom,  having  removed  from 
among  us  the  Benefactor  and  Philanthropist,  Horace  Greeley,  we  the  members 
of  Typographical  Union  No.  6,  in  convocation  assembled,  have  hereby 

JResoleed,  That  while  we  most  feelingly  and  sorrowfully  deplore  the  death 
of  one  of  America's  noblest  sons,  our  poignant  grief  is  tempered  with  the 
sweet  belief  that  He  "  who  doeth  all  things  well,"  hath  but  taken  him  to  a 
higher  and  better  sphere  for  some  wise  and  beneficent  purpose. 

Besolved,  That  we  tender  our  sincere  and  most  heartfelt  condolence  to  the 
daughters  of  the  deceased  in  this  their  sore  affliction  ;  at  the  same  time  we  can 
not  but  feel  that  their  great  sorrow  is  assuaged  by  the  knowledge  that  He  who 
holdeth  the  world  in  the  hollow  of  his  hand  hath  but  called  him  to  a  blessed 
immortality,  and  that  though  dead  he  still  lives,  where  neither  moth  nor  rust 
doth  corrupt,  nor  thieves  break  thi'ough  and  steal. 

Besolved,  That  a  copy  of  this  preamble  and  resolutions  be  presented  to  the 
family  of  the  deceased,  and  that  the  members  of  Tj'pographical  Union  No.  G 
attend  the  funeral  of  Horace  Greeley,  the  first  President  of  their  Society,  in  a 
body. 

Besolved,  That  inasmuch  as  Horace  Greeley  was  a  fellow-craftsman,  the 
rooms  of  this  Society  be  draped  in  mourning  for  a  period  of  thirty  days  in  honor 
of  his  memory.  Robert  McKechnie,  President. 

R.  O.  Harmon,  Secretary. 

William  White,  Hugh  Dalton,  ^ 

M.  R.  Walsh,  Charles  Taylor,     [■  Committee. 

George  Shearman,       John  C.  Robinson,    ) 


64  MEMORIAL    OF    HORACE   GREELEY. 

THE     WESTCHESTER    COUNTY    BAR. 

Ex-Judge  Hart  rose  in  the  court-room  at  Wliitc  Plains,  "West- 
chester County,  on  Monday,  and  in  referring  to  the  death  of  M  r. 
Greeley,  said  in  substance  : 

Tie  "was  known  to  us  all,  to  many  of  \is  intimately.  lie  distin- 
guished himself  by  his  advocacy  of  a  groat  legal  reform.  His  writ- 
ings upon  the  subject  have  been  read  by  every  lawyer,  and  they 
have  produced  their  desired  effect  everywhere.  He  was  an  active 
member  of  the  Constitutional  Convention  which  changed  to  a  great 
extent  the  position  of  our  courts,  lengthened  the  term  of  our  Judges, 
and  in  various  other  ways  affected  us  of  the  Bar.  He  was  a  great 
journalist,  eminent  in  his  profession.  He  was  a  distinguished  phi- 
lanthropist and  humanitarian  ;  a  great  historian,  distinguished  in  lit- 
erature and  in  science.  He  was  beloved  in  every  civilized  country. 
He  was  progressive.  He  was  usually  in  advance  of  others  in  great 
reformatory  measures.  He  was  the  voice  of  one  crying  in  the  wil- 
derness— make  straight  the  way  for  some  grand  proceeding  for  the 
amelioration  of  the  condition  of  men.  His  death  will  be  mourned 
and  wept  over  wdierevcr  civilization  has  imprinted  its  footsteps.  He 
w^as  long  a  resident  of  this  county,  and  Avas  much  honored  among 
us.  He  was  kind,  amiable,  gentle,  munificent,  good-hearted.  He 
began  life  poor.  He  always  sympathized  with  the  poor.  Having  a 
full  heart,  he  always  had  a  full  hand.  He  invariably  relieved  the 
wants  of  the  needy,  when  they  were  presented  to  liis  attention.  I 
recollect  reading  a  letter  which  he  sent  to  a  near  relative  of  his, 
while  she  was  in  Europe,  and  in  that  letter  he  said :  "  I  would  have 
been  richer  had  it  not  been  my  duty  to  help  others.  I  had  help  in 
my  early  life,  and  I  have  always  regarded  it  as  my  duty  to  extend 
help  to  those  who  needed  it," 

He  might  have  ranked  among  our  millionaires ;  but  he  Avas  a 
bountiful  man,  and  spread  his  munificence  wherever  it  Avas  needed. 
We  can  not  but  feel  deeply  here,  in  Westchester  County,  the  loss 
of  one  so  preeminent.  Lately  v'ast  numbers  of  men  cast  their  votes 
for  him,  that  he  might  hold  the  highest  office  in  the  land,  while 
thousands  upon  thousands  of  his  friends  refrained  from  voting  for 
him,  although  they  loved  and  honored  him  greatly.  A  terrible 
domestic  calamity  had  fallen  upon  him.  In  his  social  relations  he 
Avas  pleasant  and  gentle  beyond  measure.  I  have  seen  him  take 
temporary  leave  of  the  companion  of  his  life,  Avhilc  she  Avas  linger- 
ing, wan  and  pale,  upon  a  bed  of  sickness,  and  it  seeoied  to  me  that 


WESTCHESTER   COUNTY   BAR.  65 

she  appeared  to  him  as  though  all  the  bloom  and  freshness  and 
beauty  of  her  youth  were  still  with  her.  He  spoke  to  her  as  though 
he  was  a  young  lover,  and  with  all  the  tender  affection  of  a  father 
for  a  child.  He  had  a  good  heart ;  he  had  a  grand  head.  He  has 
left  his  impress  upon  the  age.  In  various  walks  he  has  distinguished 
himself;  his  name  is  one  of  the  immortal  names.  Like  the  stars 
which  shine  in  our  firmament,  and  when  once  there,  though  they 
may  be  blotted  out,  the  luster  of  his  name  will  be  forever. 

I  move  that  the  Court  appoint  a  committee  to  draft  a  series  of 
resolutions  appropriate  to  the  occasion,  and  that  such  resolutions  be 
presented  to  the  Court  to-morrow,  and  that  in  the  meantime  this 
Court  adjourn  out  of  respect  to  the  memory  of  the  deceased. 

J.  W.  Tompkins,  of  White  Plains,  in  seconding  the  motion  of 
Judge  Hart,  said,  in  part :  In  the  course  of  the  last  few  years  I  have 
often  met  Mr.  Greeley,  and  carefully  observed  his  silent  and  peace- 
ful manners;  and  I  have  felt  astonished  at  the  benevolent  expres- 
sion of  his  countenance,  and  the  high  intellect  manifested.  He  was 
eminent  in  intellect,  as  he  was  in  his  life  of  love  and  charity  for  the 
whole  of  mankind. 

Justice  Pratt,  after  making  a  few  remarks  on  the  life,  character, 
ability,  and  services  of  the  late  ex-Justice  Strong,  paid  substantially 
the  following  tribute  to  the  memory  of  Mr.  Greeley :  His  name  is  a 
household  word  all  over  this  country.  I  believe  it  is  now  generally 
conceded  that  the  chief  desire  that  he  had  in  accepting  the  nomina- 
tion for  the  important  office  for  which  he  was  recently  a  candidate, 
was  that  he  might  cement  the  good-will  of  the  two  sections  of  our 
country.  In  fact,  he  was  the  embodiment  of  peace  and  good-will  in 
the  late  election.  So  far  as  the  career  of  Mr.  Greeley  is  concerned, 
I  believe  that  his  life  is  the  best  illustration  of  the  institutions  of 
this  country  that  the  age  has  ever  produced.  I  think  what  can  not 
be  properly  said  of  all  newspaper  men,  may  be  said  of  him — that  he 
•established  a  journal  upon  the  principle  of  giving  to  the  jDCople  what 
they  ought  to  have,  instead  of  what  they  wanted.  Instead  of  pub- 
lishing that  which  would  possibly  make  a  newspaper  sell,  and  would 
feed  any  morbid  desire  that  there  might  be  in  the  community,  he 
aimed  to  educate  the  community  up  to  what  he  deemed  to  be  right. 

Justice  Pratt  then  appointed  ex-Judge  Hart,  J.  Warren  Tomp- 
kins, and  J.  O.  Dykman  a  committee  to  draft  suitable  resolutions, 
and  adjourned  the  Court  until  the  following  morning.  After  the 
disposal  of  routine  business  in  the  Circuit  Court  at  White  Plains, 

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66  MEMORIAL   OF    HORACE   GREELEY. 

on  Tuesday,  ex-Judge  Hart  presented  the  following,  which  were 
adopted  : 

Resolved,  That,  although  the  Bar  rarely  gives  voice  to  its  sorrow  upon  the 
demise  of  any  others  than  one  of  its  immediate  professional  fraternity,  5'et  when 
within  our  border  is  breathed  out  the  last  breath  of  the  most  illustrious  son  of 
our  country,  a  great  advocate  of  legal  reform,  one  who  taught  our  Senators 
wisdom,  who  instructed  our  legislators,  and  greatly  aided  and  encouraged  pur- 
ity of  the  Bench  and  Bar,  it  can  not  be  expected  that  we  will  entirelj'  suppress 
our  feelings. 

Unsolved,  That  "Westchester  proudly  claims  Horace  Greeley  as  her  son  ;  that 
this  Bar  mourns  his  departure  as  though  he  were  one  of  our  brethren,  and  here 
gives  public  profession  of  profoundest  grief. 

Besolved,  That  in  his  love  of  his  fellow-man ;  his  sjTnpathy  with  the  op- 
pressed, the  poor,  and  the  suffering;  his  devotion  to  his  country;  his  efforts  for 
Its  pacification  and  closer  union;  his  struggles  in  behalf  of  freedom  of  speech 
and  of  conscience,  and  the  great  cause  of  human  libertj-;  his  energj',  industry, 
perseverance,  and  purity  of  life  and  character,  we  present  him  as  an  exemplar, 
and  hold  him  eminently  worthy  of  imitation. 

Besolved,  That  we  find  consolation  in  the  consideration  that  though,  like 
Btars  covered  by  a  passing  cloud,  death  may  take  him  from  our  view  for  a  mo- 
ment, his  light  can  not  be  extinguished,  but  will  shme  like  the  stars  through 
all  the  coming  ages. 

Besolved,  That  these  resolutions  be  entered  upon  the  minutes  of  this  court, 
be  engrossed  by  the  clerk,  and  presented  to  the  surviving  membei-s  of  his  fam- 
ily, with  expressions  of  profound  sympathy. 

THE    BOARD    OF    PUBLIC    INSTRUCTION". 

In  compliance  with  the  request  of  Commissioners  Nathaniel  Jar- 
vis,  Jr.,  Samuel  A.  Lewis,  and  J.  G.  Holland,  President  Smyth  called 
a  special  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Public  Instruction  at  4:30  p.  m., 
on  Tuesday,  to  testify  its  respect  for  the  memory  of  Mr.  Greeley, 
Upon  assembling,  the  following  resolution  was,  on  motion  of  Com- 
missioner Lewis,  unanimously  adopted : 

Resolved,  That  the  President  and  Commissioners  Jarvis  and  Holland  be  ap- 
pointed a  committee  to  draft  suitable  resolutions  expressive  of  the  sense  of  this 
Department  at  the  death  of  the  late  Horace  Greeley. 

It  was  also  resolved  that  the  Board  would  attend  the  funeral  in 
a  body,  and  Messrs.  Lewis,  Sands,  and  Wood  Avere  appointed  a  com- 
mittee to  make  arrangements. 

A   TRIBUTE   FROM    SOROSIS. 

The  ladies  of  Sorosis  held  their  monthly  social  meeting  at  Del- 
monico's  on  Tuesday  afternoon.  The  gathering  was  large,  and  the 
exercises  were  varied  and  spirited.  The  following  resolutions  were 
unanimously  adopted  by  the  Club : 


TEMPERAIJ^CE   OEGANIZATIONS.  67 

WJiereas,  To-day  the  nation  mourns  the  loss  of  a  great  and  good  man,  who 
devoted  his  giant  intellect  to  Reform,  and  whose  heart  was  always  open  to  the 
cry  of  the  oppressed ; 

Resolved,  That  we  add  to  the  sense  of  general  loss  a  deep  personal  sorrow  at 
the  Providence  which  has  deprived  Miss  Ida  Greeley  and  her  sister  of  a  loving 
father  as  well  as  a  tender  mother. 

Resolved,  That,  though  words  are  insufficient  to  measure  either  their  loss  or 
the  deep  sympathy  that  we  feel  for  them  in  their  affliction,  in  sucli  great  grief 
the  Divine  hand  which  smites  can  alone  administer  consolation.  Hoping  that 
they  may  have  comfort  vouchsafed  them  such  as  the  world  can  not  give,  we 
assure  them  that  our  hearts  flow  out  in  sympathetic  tenderness  for  those  so 
young,  yet  so  sorely  stricken. 

TEMPERAXCE    OKGAXIZATIOXS. 

At  a  regular  meeting  of  Liberty  Division,  No.  7,  Sons  of  Tem- 
perance, held  at  No.  812  Broadway,  on  Wednesday  evening,  the 
following  were  adopted : 

Resolved,  That  we  regard  the  death  of  Horace  Greeley  as  a  national  calam- 
ity, and  as  an  event  that  shall  mark  an  era  in  the  history  of  the  time. 

Resolved,  That  in  his  death  we  recognize  an  irreparable  loss  to  the  commu- 
nity at  large,  and  to  the  army  of  temperance  laborers  in  particular. 

Resolved,  That  in  his  demise  we  deeply  feel  the  absence  of  that  energetic 
and  brilliant  intellect  which  he  ever  threw  into  the  balance  in  favor  of  total 
abstinence  from  all  that  would  intoxicate ;  and  of  one  who  always  pleaded 
earnestly  and  heartily,  both  by  precept  and  example,  in  the  cause  of  humanity, 
morality,  and  temperance. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Father  Matthew  Parent  Society,  held  at 
Brooks'  Assembly  Rooms  on  Sunday  night,  the  following  resolu- 
tions were  adopted  : 

Whereas,  We  have  learned  with  feelings  of  profound  sorrow  of  the  death  of 
America's  most  illustrious  son,  the  Hon.  Horace  Greeley ;  be  it  therefore 

Resolved,  That  we,  the  members  of  the  Father  Matthew  Parent  Society,  de- 
plore the  loss  which  the  nation  has  sustained  in  the  death  of  the  ever-to-be-re- 
vered Horace  Greeley. 

Resolved.  That  the  death  of  the  great  departed  has  deprived  us  of  a  noble 
advocate  of  our  cause,  a  warm  friend  and  faithful  counselor,  aud  the  world  of 
a  philosopher  and  philanthropist — a  man  upon  whose  like  we  fear  it  will  not 
be  given  to  us  to  look  again. 

Resolved,  That  we  offer  to  the  bereaved  orphan  daughters  of  Mr.  Greeley 
our  warmest  sympathj^  in  this  the  hour  of  their  accumulated  afflictions,  and 
pray  that  the  Great  Father  of  mankind  may  enable  them  to  endure  their  irrep- 
arable loss  with  fortitude  and  resignation. 

Revived,  That  a  delegation  from  this  Society  attend  the  funeral  of  the  la- 
mented deceased,  to  pay  the  last  sad  tribute  of  our  respect  and  affection  to  the 
memory  of  him  whom  we  were  wont  to  look  upon  as  our  patron  and  father. 

At   a    special    meeting   of  Phoenix   Division,  No.   68,  Sons  of 


68  MEMOEIAL   OF   HORACE   GREELEY. 

Temperance,  held  on  Monday  evening,  the  following  resolutions  were 
unanimously  adopted : 

Wliereas,  The  all-wise  Creator  has  removed  from  his  sphere  of  labor  on 
earth  our  esteemed  friend  and  co-worker  in  the  cause  of  temperance,  Horace 
Greelej', 

Resolved,  That  in  the  death  of  our  distinguished  champion  we  have  lost  a 
logical  and  brilliant  exponent  and  a  valiant  defender  of  our  principles. 
He  invariably  threw  the  weight  of  his  vast  influence  and  of  his  pure  example 
in  the  scale  of  absolute  abstinence  from  the  use  of  intoxicating  liquors  as  a 
beverage,  and  he  never  faltered  on  the  platform  or  at  the  press  to  encourage  the 
friends  of  temperance  in  their  labors  of  love. 

Resolved,  That  Phosnix  Division  deems  it  a  great  favor  and  honor  that  it 
enjoyed  the  personal  aid  and  counsel  of  the  great  leader  of  the  press,  whose 
•words  of  wisdom  and  whose  profound  philosophy  have  done  so  much  toward 
educating  a  correct  public  sentiment  on  the  subject  of  total  abstinence. 

Resolved,  That  while  the  shadow  of  atfliction  is  upon  our  hearts,  we  dedicate 
ourselves  anew  to  the  good  work  which  was  so  near  and  so  dear  to  the  heart 
of  our  departed  brother,  who  will  be  known  in  history  and  in  all  future  time 
as  the  friend  of  the  poor  and  the  oppressed  and  the  champion  of  truth  and  jus- 
tice. 

Resolved,  That  we  regard  the  death  of  Horace  Greeley  as  a  national  calam- 
ity. He  was  a  model  of  industry,  of  temperance,  and  of  personal  purity  of  char- 
acter. 

Resolved,  That  we  drape  our  hall  in  mourning  and  w^ear  the  badge  of 
mourning  for  thirty  days. 

THE    UNITED    NATIONALITIES. 

The  "  United  Nationalities "  passed  the  following,  on  Tuesday, 
at  a  special  meeting : 

Wliereas,  We,  in  common  with  our  fellow-citizens,  have  learned  with  mingled 
feelings  of  sorow  and  regret  of  the  sudden  and  imtimely  death  of  the  friend  of 
humanity  and  liberty,  Horace  Greeley ;  and. 

Whereas,  In  common  with  all,  we  are  pained  and  grieved  at  the  sorrowful 
occiurence ;  therefore, 

Resolved,  That  in  the  death  of  Horace  Greeley  the  country  has  lost  the 
prince  of  journalists;  the  friend  and  benefactor  of  the  human  race  ;  a  man  of 
the  people ;  one  who  rose  to  prominence  and  distinction  from  a  poor  farmer 
boy  to  the  proud  eminence  of  the  most  successful  and  distinguished  journalist 
of  the  age,  through  his  own  unaided  skill,  industry,  and  perseverance,  and  who 
to-day  is  acknowledged  to  have  been  the  Humanitarian  of  the  Age. 

Resolved,  That  this  Association  do  adjourn,  out  of  respect  for  tlie  memory 
of  the  deceased ;  that  a  copy  of  these  resolutions  be  sent  to  his  family,  and 
entered  upon  our  minutes. 

HONORS    IN    VERMONT. 

The  citizens  of  Paitland,  Vt.,  testified  their  respect  for  the  mem- 


HONORS  IN  vee:\iont.  69 

ory  of  Horace  Greeley,  on  Wednesday  afternoon,  by  appropriate 
and  impressive  memorial  services  at  the  Town  Hall,  which  called 
together  a  large  concourse  of  people.  The  American  flag,  draped 
in  mourning,  was  suspended  back  of  the  platform ;  in  the  middle 
was  a  life-like  portrait  of  the  great  journalist,  and  over  it  the  w^ords 
"  It  is  done,"  The  tolling  of  the  bells  of  the  village  announced  the 
hour  of  the  gathering  of  the  people  for  the  sad  services,  and  a  deep 
solemnity  pervaded  the  entire  community.  The  exercises  began 
with  a  chant,  after  Avhich  the  13th  chapter  of  Romans  was  read  by 
the  Rev.  Dr.  William  J.  Harris,  of  the  Episcopal  Church,  and  a 
touching  and  fervent  prayer  was  offered  by  the  Rev.  James  Gibson 
Johnson,  of  the  Congregational  Church.  The  choir  then  rendered 
"  I  know  that  my  Redeemer  liveth,"  and  an  eloquent,  appreciative, 
and  critical  memorial  discourse  was  delivered  by  the  Rev.  William 
P.  Aiken. 

The  speaker,  in  opening,  niade  fitting  allusions  to  the  occasion 
that  had  convened  the  people,  and  paid  a  graceful  tribute  to  the 
services  and  character  of  Mr.  Greeley.  A  biographical  sketch  fol- 
lowed, in  which  the  elements  of  character  of  his  parents  were  ana- 
lyzed, and  the  strong  traits  which  distinguished  his  mother  were 
brought  out  with  skill,  and  to  her  was  attributed  the  ability  which 
so  i^rominently  marked  the  son.  The  starting  point  of  the  great 
influence  the  journalist  wielded  was  traced  to  the  campaign  of  1840, 
and  the  sharp  and  incisive  editorials  which  came  from  his  pen  dur- 
ing that  exciting:  strus-sfle.  The  establishment  of  The  Tribune. 
wielding  the  widest  influence  of  any  journal  in  the  world,  was  an 
outgrowth  of  the  manhood  and  independence  exhibited  in  his  cam- 
paign publication.  It  was  reserved  for  Mr.  Greeley  to  be  the  first 
to  put  political  conscience  into  the  press,  which  previously  had  never 
exhibited  any  conscience,  but  from  that  period  it  has  been  a  marked 
trait  in  leading  journalism.  His  bold  stand  for  temperance,  moral- 
ity, the  workingman  (to  whom  he  had  endeavored  to  teach  temper- 
ance and  the  necessity  of  education),  and  his  sympathy  with  the 
oppressed  and  down-trodden,  were  treated  in  an  eulogistic  manner. 
A  critical  review  was  given  of  the  late  political  contest  and  its  causes, 
with  allusion  to  the  bitterness  and  vituperation  which  had  character- 
ized it,  and  which  had  fallen  upon  a  sensitive  nature  and  borne  down 
the  man  under  an  oppressive  weight.  The  speaker  defended  the 
character  of  Mr.  Greeley  against  the  charges  of  vacillation  and  re- 
creancy to  principle  and  party,  declaring  that  no  public  or  political 


70  MEMOEIAL   OF   HORACE   GREELEY. 

act  of  his  has  been  inconsistent  with  tlie  principles  he  had  advocated 
for  thirty  years.  Mr.  Aiken  closed  Avith  an  eloquent  summary  of 
the  grand  life  of  the  great  journalist  and  pliilanthiopist,  with  touch- 
ing allusions  to  the  appropriateness  of  the  President,  Senators,  Judges, 
and  eminent  citizens  of  the  nation  standing  by  the  coffin,  and  joining 
the  funeral  procession  to  the  grave,  of  one  who  had  done  so  great  a 
work  for  the  nation,  the  world,  and  humanity,  as  the  distinguished 
American  whom  the  people  of  two  continents  revered  and  honored. 
The  services,  which  concluded  with  prayer  and  benediction  by 
the  Rev.  Dr.  Harris,  were  very  impressive,  and  gave  striking  evi- 
dence of  the  high  esteem  in  which  Mr.  Greeley  was  held  by  the 
people  of  the  State  in  whicn  he  spent  his  youth,  and  from  which  he 
went  forth  to  gain  for  himself  an  honored  name. 

AT    ELIZABETH,    X.    J. 

The  following  resolutions  were  adopted  at  a  public  meeting  in 
Elizabeth,  N.  J. : 

Resolved,  That  we  deplore  as  a  national  calamity  the  death  of  Horace  Gree- 
ley, believing  that  the  death  of  no  American  citizen,  at  this  time,  could  have 
left  a  void  so  nearly  impossible  to  till. 

Resolved,  That  by  using  to  tlie  noblest  ends  his  almost  unbounded  talents, 
by  his  integritj^,  his  industry,  his  benevolence,  his  philanthrojiy,  his  patriotism, 
his  love  of  truth  and  right,  his  hatred  of  falsehood  and  wrong,  his  zeal  in 
every  needed  reform,  his  sympathies  with  the  suffering  and  oppressed  of  all 
nations,  and,  above  all,  by  his  persistent,  luiflinching,  and  successful  advocacy 
of  the  cause  of  human  freedom,  he  has  made  the  whole  world  his  debtor,  and 
compelled  mankind  to  recognize  in  him,  in  the  largest  sense,  "  an  honest  man, 
the  noblest  work  of  God." 

Resolved,  Tliat  as  an  editor  we  believe  him  to  have  stood  pre{?minenUy  at 
the  head  of  his  profession,  and  to  have  marked  an  era  in  American  journalism 
by  which  he  will  ever  be  gratefully  remembered  and  revered  by  every  mem- 
ber of  the  profession,  and  by  all  lovers  of  a  pure,  high-toned,  independent 
press. 

IN    THE   TOWK    OF    GREELEY. 

To  THE  Editor  of  the  Tribune — Sir:  We  got  the  news  of 
Mr.  Greeley's  death  to-day  at  10  o'clock,  and  could  hardly  believe 
■what  we  heard.  I  scarcely  know  what  to  think,  so  much  have  I 
been  indebted  to  Mr.  Greeley  for  sound  advice  in  colonial  matters. 
Besides,  he  has  been  a  true  friend  to  me.  The  large  Colony  flag  has 
been  at  half-mast  in  the  park,  and  other  flags  have  trailed.  The 
Board  of  Trade  meets  to-night  to  talk  over  the  event.  The  whole 
town  is  solemn,  and  men  shed  tears.     I  doubt  whether  the  nation 


VOICE   OF  THE  PULPIT  AND  THE  PEESS.  71 

itself  was  so  deeply  moved  on  the  death  of  Lincoln  as  it  is  now  at 

the  death  of  Mr.  Greeley.     This  is  one  of  the  blows  that  shock  and 

confuse,  and  I  am  sure  I  am  so  confused  that  I  can  not  add  more. 

Yours,  •    N.  c.  M. 

Greeley,  Col.,  liov.  30, 1872. 


VOICE  OF  THE  PULPIT  AND  THE  PRESS. 

[Frotn  tlie  Tribune,  Dec.  2,  1872.] 
We  print  this  morning,  with  a  kind  of  melancholy  pride,  perhaps 
the  most  remarkable  recognition  of  excellence  and  usefulness  in  life 
which  the  demise  of  any  merely  private  citizen  has  ever  evoked. 
Kow  that  Mr.  Greeley  has  left  us,  we  begin  to  understand  how 
large,  and,  we  may  be  permitted  to  say,  how  honorable  a  place  he 
filled  in  the  public  mind  and  in  society.  If  the  reader  will  be  good 
enough  to  turn  to  our  record  of  the  allusions  made  yesterday  to  Mr. 
Greeley's  departure  by  the  foremost  clergymen  of  all  denominations 
in  New  Tork,  he  will  see  a  concurrent  admission  of  the  beauty  of 
Mr.  Greeley's  character,  which  comes  from  men  professionally  ac- 
customed to  make  such  estimates,  and  equally  unaccustomed  to 
make  them  according  to  any  low  or  loosely  liberal  standard. 
Death  always  checks  very  sternly  our  frivolous  and  somewhat  de- 
grading habit  of  superficially  rating  distinguished  men,  of  criticising 
their  conduct  with  vulgar  familiarity,  of  searching  for  mean  motives 
and  of  suspecting  selfish  intentions.  The  pulpit  yesterday  con- 
sidered our  dead  leader  with  a  calm  sobriety,  and  made  up  a  judg- 
ment in  which  political  difierences,  professional  jealousies,  and 
personal  animosities  found  no  place.  It  is,  we  firmly  believe,  the 
judgment  which  will  stand  of  historic  record.  It  recognizes  as  fully 
and  as  cheerfully  as  Mr.  Greeley's  nearest  friends  could  have  desired, 
both  the  goodness  of  his  heart,  for  which  most  of  all  they  loved  him, 
and  the  robust  and  ready  vigor  of  his  intellect,  which  nobody  ever 
sincerely  disputed.  Not  one  preacher  of  yesterday  failed  to  discern 
the  really  Christian  character  of  the  man ;  for  though  creeds  may 
widely  difier,  and  though  Mr.  Greeley's  theological  opinions  were 
not  those  which  are  entertained  by  most  of  his  clerical  eulogists, 
there  is  no  religion  worthy  of  the  name  which  does  not  admit  the 
value  of  noble  work  nobly  done,  and  of  a  benevolence  which  em- 
braces all  mankind.  It  is  encouraging,  indeed,  since  it  strengthens 
our  faith  in  all  that  is  excellent  in  human  nature,  to  find  the  true 


72  MEMORIAL   OF  HORACE   GREELEY. 

character  of  a  good  man  admitted  with  such  catholicity  of  spirit. 
During  his  whole  career  as  a  journalist,  it  was  often  the  fortune  of 
Mr.  Greeley  to  be  either  misunderstood  or  misrepresented.  He  had 
his  shai-e  of  human  infirmities,  and  he  knew  it,  but  selfishness  was 
not  most  certainly  one  of  those  which  fell  to  his  share  ;  nor  was  he 
the  first  whose  occasional  asperities  of  manner  have  concealed  an 
almost  feminine  tenderness  of  heart,  or  whose  boundless  pity  for  the 
weakness  of  man  has  aggravated  the  truculence  Avith  which  he 
sometimes  upbraided  it.  Fit  was  it  that  the  pulpits  should  speak 
kindly  of  one  who  scrupulously  followed  the  divine  and  double  in- 
junction, and  whose  left  hand  knew  nothing  of  the  largess  which 
his  right  so  liberally  distributed.  Fit  also  was  it  that  in  the 
churches  notice  should  be  taken  of  the  death  of  one  who,  in  all  his 
life,  never  deliberately  did  one  deed  which  his  conscience  disap- 
proved, unless  we  are  to  except  those  frequent  acts  of  charity  which 
his  heart  prompted  while  his  better  judgment  condemned  them. 

We  print  also  this  morning  a  considerable  number  of  the  notices 
taken  of  Mr.  Gi'eeley's  death  by  the  newspaper  press.  It  would  be 
ungenerous  and  ungrateful,  it  would  be  inconsistent  with  those  feel- 
ings which  the  loss  of  our  chief  has  awakened  in  our  hearts,  should 
we  fail  here,  and  at  this  early  moment,  to  acknowledge  our  sense  of 
the  kindly  consideration  with  which  (with  some  unimportant  excep- 
tions) our  bereavement  has  been  considered  by  our  brother  journal- 
ists. The  death,  within  a  comparatively  short  period,  of  three  emi- 
nent New  York  editors,  of  men  whose  uncommon  abilities  conducted 
to  permanent  prosperity  the  newspapers  which  their  enter])rise  and 
honorable  ambition  projected,  may  well  remind  us  that  life  is  too 
short  to  be  wasted  in  unnecessaiy  disputes.  Much  which  we  are  in 
the  habit  of  saying  of  each  other,  with  careless  prodigality  of 
epithet,  and  without  suflicient  heed  of  the  literal  import  of  our 
words,  seems,  in  the  presence  of  such  a  death,  to  be  unwortliy  of  our 
own,  or,  indeed,  of  any  honorable  calling.  If  Mr.  Greeley  had  lieen 
less  fervent  and  positive  in  his  opinions  and  his  couA-ictions,  if  he  had 
been  less  devoted  in  mind  and  heart  to  what  he  believed  to  be  riglit 
and  the  truth,  he  might  often  have  expressed  himself  in  words  more 
guarded  and  with  something  more  of  conventional  and  parliamentary 
circumlocution.  He  was  himself  accustomed  to  receive  hard  blows, 
and  it  is  no  secret  that  he  had  a  habit  of  returning  them  Avith  liberal 
interest ;  yet  no  one  had  more  of  Avhat  the  French  call  hprit  de 
corps  than  he.     He  liked  to  be  upon  good  terms  personally  Avith  bis 


VOICE   OF   THE  PULPIT  AND   THE  PEESS,  73 

brethren.  There  was  a  depth  of  geniality  and  of  good-fellowship  in 
his  nature,  of  which  the  not  infrequent  humor  of  his  writings  gave  in- 
dication. No  man  could  be  less  indifferent  than  he  was  to  the  good 
opinion  of  others ;  no  man  could  relish  the  approbation  of  his  con- 
temporaries more  keenly,  but  he  certainly  did  not  think  it  worth  the 
eacrifice  of  a  single  principle,  or  the  abandonment  of  any  opinion 
Honestly  entertained.  It  is  because  he  was  thus  so  nobly  true  that 
{le  did  not  fear  even  the  bugbear  of  inconsistency  that  he  is  so  uni- 
versally honored  and  lamented  as  he  sleeps  in  his  coffin  this  morning. 
When  the  history  of  American  journalism  shall  be  written,  the  same 
page  which  records  his  labors  will  attest  that  he  won  the  substantial 
respect  of  his  brethren,  and  that,  when  his  life  was  ended,  they  hon- 
ored themselves  by  honoring  his  memory. 

MR.  Greeley's  religious  belief. 
[Dr.  CJiapin,  at  tlie  Church  of  the  Divine  Paternity.'] 
Dr.  Chapin,  in  closing  his  sermon,  which  was  in  reference  to  the 
power  of  Christian  revelation,  said :  It  is  a  power  to  inspire  men 
nobly  in  the  work  of  life ;  it  is  a  power  to  sustain  them  triumphantly 
in  the  struggle  of  death.  It  was  a  power  that  inspired  and  sustained 
our  friend,  our  brother,  of  whom  two  continents  are  speaking  to-day, 
and  of  whom,  if  I  do  not  say  much  now,  it  is  because  I  can  not 
speak  adequately,  and  because  there  are  occasions  that  transcend 
words.  More  competent  tongues  and  pens  than  mine  will  delineate 
the  life,  will  illustrate  the  character,  will  write  the  epitaph  of  Hor- 
ace Greeley.  His  name  will  be  pronounced  with  reverence,  and 
love,  and  sorrow,  by  differing  lips,  for  it  was  the  peculiarity  of  this 
man  that  he  filled  many  circles  of  human  interest,  and  sent  a  potent 
influence  through  them  all.  The  homes  and  hearts  of  those  who 
knew  him  best  will  keep  his  acts  and  words  in  tender  freshness  ;  the 
political  world,  accordant  or  discordant,  as  it  may  be,  with  his  pecu- 
liar views,  will  lament  an  honored  leader ;  the  workman  will  miss  a 
fellow-workman  who  labored  by  his  side,  and  for  his  cause ;  the 
Freedman  will  not  forget  him  until  he  forgets  the  record  of  his 
scars  and  the  breaking  of  his  chains  ;  the  Pen,  the  Press,  the  Plow 
will  be  symbols  of  his  memory.  There  is  not  a  noble  cause  or  kindly 
work  of  man  that  will  not  feel  his  loss  and  send  its  echo  of  regret ; 
and  a  great  nation  that,  when  passion  and  transient  excitement  pass 
away,  is  a  generous  nation,  will  fix  him  in  his  place,  among  our  truly 
great  and  good  men. 


74  MEMORIAL   OF   HORACE   GEEELEY. 

Therefore,  he  needs  no  lengthened  or  elaborate  eulogy  from  me. 
But  upou  one  point  I  may  speak,  I  ought  to  speak  here  and  now, 
and  that  in  close  accordance  with  the  theme  of  this  discourse,  Mr. 
Greeley  was  of  our  household  faith ;  this  was  his  chosen  place  of 
worship. 

We  shall  miss  him  here  as  one  of  the  most  familiar  links  in  our 
associations  of  the  Sabbath  and  the  sanctuary.  I  shall  miss  him  as 
one  of  our  most  familiar  links  in  connection  with  this  church  and 
l^eople  for  twenty-five  years.  Looking  through  the  vista  of  that 
time,  among  those  of  then  comparative  youth,  who  are  now  thinning 
and  scattering  away,  I  recognize  him  as  among  my  earliest  and 
truest  friends. 

He  was  no  faii'-weather  Christian,  but  was  always  in  attendance 
in  storm  and  sunshine,  health  permitting.  He  was  a  faithful  and 
humble  worshiper.  He  gave  his  ready  help  in  all  kinds  of  charit- 
able and  denominational  work.  He  was  not  merely  a  pcAV-holder  or 
hearer. 

He  was  a  sympathetic  co-worker.  His  was  no  holiday  faith  worn 
for  a  time-serving  purpose.  It  was  not  put  on  him,  it  grew  out  of 
him,  the  earliest  ingrain  conviction  of  his  youth  and  of  his  after-life. 
Had  he  aimed  at  popularity,  he  would  have  concealed  it  as  many  do 
under  other  names  and  worshiped  it  under  other  forms,  for  although 
this  is  a  faith  of  the  people,  in  a  worldly  and  superficial  sense  it  is 
not  a  pojjular  faith,  but  even  now  is  strangely  misconceived  and  bit- 
terly denounced. 

With  him  conviction  was  an  obligation.  He  firmly  believed  it 
and  expressed  it ;  and  yet  his  large  and  hospitable  mind  could  not 
hold  its  belief  in  any  narrow  limits,  or  cut  it  ofl"  from  the  great  con- 
tinent of  truth.  He  was  not  a  sectarian,  but  always  said,  and  truly, 
that  we,  in  our  ecclesiastical  position,  had  not  put  ourselves  out  of 
the  church,  but  had  been  put  out  in  the  cold ;  but  I  say,  with  all 
this,  this  was  his  chief  conviction  of  the  Divine  Fatherhood, 

I  don't  say  too  much  when  I  say  the  peculiar  character  of  liis 
work,  his  large-hearted  interest  in  humanity,  came  from  his  faith  in 
the  universal  Fatherhood  of  God,  and  the  universal  brotherhood  of 
man.  So  it  Avas  his  inspiration  in  life.  We  know,  thank  God  !  that 
it  was  his  support  in  death. 

Wlien,  worried  and  worn  with  life's  conflict,  he  sank  upon  the 
field,  and  knew  tliat  all  the  life  of  good  or  ill  was  over,  his  last  ut- 
terance was  one  of  simple  faith  and  trust.     So  he  passed  a  peace- 


VOICE   OF   THE   PULPIT  AKD   THE  PEESS.  75 

ful  victory.  We  always  listen  to  catch  the  dying  words  of  great 
men. 

I  know  of  none  from  a  dying  man  so  simple,  so  truthful,  so 
grandly  triumphant  as  those  last  words  of  Mr.  Greeley :  "  I  knoAV 
that  my  Redeemer  liveth."  That  is  victory  for  life.  It  is  true  it 
does  not  prove  the  correctness  of  any  mode  of  Christianity, 

It  may  be  no  proof  of  Christianity  itself ;  but,  after  all,  remem- 
ber that  he  did  not  revert  to  this  truth  in  his  weakness,  but  ex- 
pressed in  his  hour  of  dying  the  whole  conviction  of  his  life.  He 
had  lived  it  constantly.  And  remember,  too,  it  is  this  Christian 
truth  after  all. 

There  is  a  power  in  it  which  is  not  revealed  in  cold  philosophy 
or  flippant  worldliness.  He  who  can  say  in  worldly  conscience,  "  I 
know  that  my  Redeemer  liveth,"  is  strong  in  the  faith  and  the  assur- 
ance of  God,  and  strong  to  do  the  work  of  this  world,  and  strong 
when  the  work  of  this  world  is  by  him  to  be  done  no  more,  "  for  he 
that  hath  seen  me,"  says  Jesus,  "  hath  seen  the  Father." 

A    GREAT    PHILANTHROPIST. 

[J))'.  Cuyler,  at  the  Lafayette  Avenue  Presbyterian  Church,  Brooklyn.] 

1  had  written  much  of  the  discourse  which  was  intended  for  this 
day  when  I  learned  of  the  death  of  the  great  and  eminent  man 
whose  memory  is  dear  to  every  one  within  the  sound  of  my  voice. 
He  was  one  of  those  noble  sons  of  Christ  who  rose  so  brilliantly 
that  all  men  wondered  and  admired ;  but  his  sun  has  now  set  for- 
ever. 

Years  of  untiring  labor — made  up  of  nights  and  days  of  grand 
mental  energy  and  thought  and  sincere  purpose — had  their  effect 
upon  a  giant  physical  frame.  The  clock  had  run  down  before  its 
time,  and  there  was  no  one  who  could  wind  it  up  and  set  it  again 
except  Him  who  created  it. 

There  is  a  great  picture  in  my  study,  which  I  prize  very  greatly, 
and  as  I  sit  and  look  at  the  bright,  intellectual  face  of  Hugh  Miller, 
I  think  of  that  sad,  dark  night's  work  which  put  a  period  to  the 
work  of  an  overtaxed  brain.  When  God  gives  to  any  of  his  creat- 
ures brilliant  minds  sufficient  to  manage  a  great  newsj^aper,  He  has 
bestowed  the  greatest  endowment  which  humanity  can  crave. 

The  great  mind  of  whom  I  speak  moved  New  York  for  years, 
and  through  his  newspaper  created  the  opinions  of  a  large  part  of 
the  nation's  population.     This  man  of  wondrous  power  was  of  the 


76  MEMORIAL   OF   HORACE   GREELEY. 

humblest  origin.  He  rose  unaided  to  a  greater  prominence  than  any 
man  of  his  generation.  All  of  us,  my  hearers,  depend  upon  the 
employment  of  our  mental  faculties. 

The  Lord  gave  to  Daniel  the  brain  power  sufficient  to  raise  him 
to  the  supremacy  of  Babylon,  and  to  Paul  wisdom  and  po^\  er  suffi- 
cient for  liim  to  brinsj  about  great  reformation  in  Rome  and  Asia 
INlinor.  As  I  have  said,  the  mournful  intelligence  of  Mr.  Greeley's 
death  reached  me  as  if  by  some  strange  coincidence  when  I  was  at 
work  upon  the  seimon  of  to-day. 

It  came  as  if  to  reaffirm  the  warning  which  is  inculcated  by  the 
death  of  those  who  have  overworked  their  mental  faculties.  The 
natural  father  gave  very  little  toward  the  man's  greatness.  The 
poor  New  Hampshire  boy  began  life  without  any  bright  prospects. 

He  began,  as  Webster,  Clay,  and  Lincoln,  at  the  cabin  door.  No 
man  since  Franklin,  rising  as  a  great  Commoner,  ever  wielded  such 
an  influence.  No  sword  ever  cut  more  keenly  than  did  the  words  as 
they  came  crisp  and  clear  from  his  pen. 

Of  these  words  this  is  no  time  nor  place  to  speak,  but  it  is  fitting 
to  refer  to  his  transcendent  power.  To  me  it  is  a  cause  for  regret 
that  one  of  such  power  and  mental  supremacy  should  condescend  to 
accept  any  nomination  for  civil  office,  however  high.  How  much 
grander  the  province  of  first  creating  and  then  directing  public 
opinion  ! 

He  pointed  out  the  noblest  aim  of  journalism,  and  the  highest 
point  reached  by  any  American  was  scaled  by  the  man  whose  right 
hand  has  just  forgotten  its  conning.  His  earliest  and  noblest  utter- 
ances were  for  the  cause  of  national  purity,  the  freedom  of  the 
oppressed,  and  the  unity  of  our  country. 

On  two  occasions  he  defended  the  cause  of  temperance  from  this 
ver}-  pulpit.  His  least  elaborate  and  careful  articles  were  on  the 
subject  of  Fourierism ;  his  strongest  and  most  pungent  on  the  laws 
of  marriage.  He  was  the  best  of  husbands  and  fathers,  as  I  know 
by  personal  acquaintance  with  his  family. 

It  may  truly  be  said  that  Horace  Greeley  died  of  a  broken  heart. 
It  is  a  tragedy  which  goes  to  the  bottom  of  every  heart.  For  more 
than  twenty  years  cordial  friendship  existed  between  the  great 
editor  and  your  pastor.  I  knew  of  him  as  a  truly  generous,  warm- 
hearted nature;  pure,  just,  and  unselfish. 

He  has  twice  visited  me  at  my  residence,  and  on  one  occasion 
knelt  at  my  family  altar.     He  was  of  a  very  sympathetic  nature, 


VOICE   OF   THE   PULPIT   AND  THE  PEESS.  77 

and  sometimes  almost  childish  in  his  griefs.  We  last  were  in  com- 
pany as  we  went  together  to  address  a  meeting  of  the  humbler  class 
of  workingmen. 

When  I  thanked  him  for  coming  to  give  ns  his  aid,  he  said,  "  I 
would  rather  address  such  a  meeting  than  the  audiences  which 
usually  assemble  at  the  Academy  of  Music  or  Steinway  Hall,  I  am 
happier  here."  We  parted  that  night  at  the  corner  of  this  street, 
and,  save  for  a  moment,  I  never  saw  him  more. 

His  last  words  to  me  as  we  separated  were  promises  to  come 
over  to  Brooklyn  some  day  in  the  future.  The  great  word  to  be 
forever  associated  with  his  naine  will  be  "  Philanthropy."  He 
believed  m  the  divinity  of  our  Lord,  but  he  held  that  all  men  would 
finally  be  restored  to  Divine  favor. 

He  has  gone  beyond  our  right  of  judgment.  His  virtues  and 
his  philanthroiDic  services  for  the  down-trodden  and  the  poor  I  shall 
always  honor.  I  would  love  to  speak  much  more  of  one  with  whom 
I  differed  so  radically,  and  when  fathers  will  in  future  desire  to 
point  out  for  their  children  the  pathway  to  that  true  greatness  which 
comes  through  the  development  of  mental  resources,  I  believe  that 
they  will  select,  without  prejudice  to  either,  Franklin,  Lincoln,  and  the 
printer  boy,  Horace  Greeley.  Than  the  latter  there  certainly  can  not 
be  found  in  history  a  purer  and  nobler  model. 

AX    I^STGEAIN    EEPUBLICAK. 

[The  Eev.  0.  B.  Fi'otMngham,  at  Lyric  Hall.'] 
Mr.  Frothingham,  in  his  sermon  upon  the  text,  "  God  is  Love," 
mentioned  Horace  Greeley  as  a  man  whose  life  was  guided  by  the 
sentiments  shown  in  those  words.  This  is  not  the  place,  he  said,  to 
speak  of  his  career,  the  incidents  of  his  life,  or  the  events  which  made 
it  conspicuous. 

I  have  nothing  to  say  about  him  as  a  politician  or  a  reformer. 
Upon  his  private  character  I  will  pass  no  judgment.  It  is  very  dif- 
ficult to  judge  of  character.  Those  who  are  familiar  with  a  man 
are  blind  to  his  follies.  Those  who  are  not  intimate  with  him  are 
blind  to  his  virtues. 

In  the  case  of  public  men,  the  task  is  peculiarly  difficult.  His 
motives,  his  feelings,  are  closely  identified  with  the  career,  with  the 
positions  he  holds,  with  his  attitude  toward  the  great  questions  of  the 
day.  The  battles  that  rage  about  the  problems  he  discusses  rages 
with  equal  violence  about  him. 


78  MEMORIAL  OF  HORACE  GREELET. 

We  must  be  very  careful  how  we  judge  the  private  character  of 
men  so  conspicuous  as  Horace  Greeley.  We  may  put  one  construc- 
tion or  another  upon  tlie  facts.  Now  as  I  look  upon  this  man,  speak- 
ing for  myself  alone,  and  speaking  a  life-long  conviction,  he  seems 
to  me  to  be  one  of  those  men  who  have  illustrated  what  is  commonly 
called  the  enthusiasm  of  life. 

He  had  this  very  idea  that  I  have  been  trying  to  unfold  this 
morning,  that  God  is  love — not  force,  not  power,  but  love.  Not, 
possibly,  with  consistency  in  everything,  but  that  idea  was  at  the 
heart  of  liis  heart.  It  was  the  animating  soul  of  his  purpose.  He 
was  a  republican  in  grain.  He  had  labored  hard  as  the  hardest  at 
the  farm  and  at  the  printing-press. 

He  had  known  what  it  was  to  hunger  and  to  be  a  nothing  and 
nobody  in  society.  He  could  sympathize  with  that  large  class  of 
men  who  scarcely  know  where  they  are  to  lay  their  heads.  He  be- 
came distinguished,  and  finally  moved  among  the  most  powerful. 
He  knew  what  the  rights  of  men  were  worth.  He  knew  what  manly 
qualities  stood  for.     He  had  fought  for  them,  and  fought  hard. 

One  of  his  first  acts  in  public  was  to  protest  against  one  of  those 
minor  iniquities  in  Washington.  He  was  a  prominent  advocate  of 
every  great  reform,  every  great  social  movement  which  has  char- 
acterized this  generation.  He  pleaded  first  and  last  for  peace,  as  the 
condition  of  progress,  as  its  one  guarantee. 

He  was  the  friend  of  industry.  He  pleaded  against  slavery  as 
the  curse,  the  root  of  bitterness  and  element  of  social  discord,  and 
230ssibly  the  cause  of  political  destruction  in  the  State,  which  must 
be  removed,  or  republican  institutions  would  come  to  an  untimely 
end.  He  was  unremitting  in  his  appeals  for  emancij^ation.  He 
bore  his  testimony  against  slavery  in  public  and  private  with  all  the 
earnestness  of  a  warm  heart. 

He  pleaded  for  popular  education  as  being  the  only  means  by 
whicli  the  people  could  become  fully  equipped  for  their  mighty  task. 
He  said  that  this  country  was  common  to  the  Mohammedan,  the 
Turk,  and  the  Mormon,  as  well  as  to  the  Christian ;  that  the  State 
was  responsible  for  no  religion. 

This  was  a  bold  ground  to  take,  but  he  took  it  with  a  clear  con- 
science that  this  ground  was  the  only  one  for  institutions  such  as 
ours,  and  the  only  safeguard  against  a  possible  persecution  of  some 
religious  sect.  He  contended  for  the  rights  of  all  men,  aye,  and  for 
women. 


VOICE   OF    THE   PULPIT  AND   THE    PEESS.  79 

He  never  flinched,  never  equivocated.  Enthusiastic  was  his  de- 
votion to  human  rights,  to  human  equality.  He  used  to  run  into 
what  we  should  call  amiable  sentimentality ;  they  came  from  his  hu- 
manity, and  he  never,  for  the  sake  of  humanity,  took  them  back.  In 
religion  he  was  a  Universalist ;  that  is,  he  believed  that  men  were 
to  be  redeemed  and  saved  by  the  love  of  God ;  and  he  believed  that 
the  love  of  God  was  sufiicient  to  do  that  thing. 

I  ascribe  to  this  faith  in  the  power  and  omnipotence  of  love,  his 
earnest  endeavors  to  avert  a  war  which  threatened  the  life  of  the 
nation.  He  was  not  timid,  or,  least  of  all,  disloyal.  It  was  his  love 
of  peace  which  made  him  go  as  far  as  the  farthest  in  the  direction  of 
deprecating  anything  that  should  bring  upon  us  the  curse  of  civil 
war. 

When  the  conflict  was  raging  most  bitterly,  and  party  passions 
were  running  very  high,  I  ascribe  to  that  same  love  of  peace  his  ef- 
forts to  snatch  the  olive  branch  when  it  was  presented  by  the  other 
side,  hoping  and  believing  that  the  olive  branch  did  mean  peace. 

When,  at  the  close  of  the  war,  he  boldly  came  forward  and  ofier- 
ed  himself  as  a  bondsman  for  Jefierson  Davis,  that  showed  no  weak- 
ness of  his  soul,  no  purj^ose  to  cover  up  iniquity.  He  believed  that 
magnanimity  alone  could  conquer.  His  anxiety  that  all  the  South- 
ern races  should  have  equal  chances  with  the  Northern  races ;  that 
the  memory  of  the  war  should  be  wiped  out  as  far  as  possible,  was 
with  him  a  feeling  sincere  and  genuine. 

I  am  deeply  grateful  to  Horace  Greeley.  I  look  back  to  the  day 
when  I  was  a  young  man,  crude  and  prejudiced,  his  paper  first  came 
into  my  hands,  with  its  noble  discussions,  with  its  frank  avowals, 
with  its  protests  against  inhu.manity,  with  its  sincere  desire  to  bet- 
ter the  world. 

I  know  that  what  he  did  for  me  he  did  for  hundreds,  for  thou- 
sands of  young  men  in  all  parts  of  the  country,  teaching  them  how 
to  live  braver,  and  purer,  and  sweeter  lives.  I  mourn  his  loss  as  the 
loss  of  a  great  teacher,  a  strong  reformer,  and  earnest  regenerator. 

If  he  espoused  the  cause  of  truth,  he  sent  it  home  to  the  mind. 
If  he  fell  into  error,  he  made  the  friends  of  truth  look  sharply  to 
their  weapons.  Less  than  a  year  ago  he  stood  in  the  midst  of  a  large 
and  distinguished  company  of  men,  in  the  prime  of  his  life  and 
strength,  with  bright  eyes  and  grave  countenance. 

It  was  the  culminating  hour  of  his  fame  and  influence.  There 
was  scarcely  a  man   in  the  country  who  was  more  loved  and  re- 


80  MEMORIAL   OF   HORACE   GREELEY. 

vered  than  he.  Now  he  has  gone,  there  are  those  who  say  that  he 
owed  his  death  to  his  fidelity  to  the  same  principles  that  made 
his  life  illustrious — the  belief  in  social  reform, 

I  will  not  say  nay  to  that,  though  I  was  not  one  of  those  who 
advocated  his  election.  I  believe  that  in  it  he  was  sincere ;  that 
though  his  cause  was  repudiated  by  his  countrymen,  it  was  dear  to  his 
heart ;  that  he  ho2)ed  for  it  and  prayed  for  it,  only  as  a  man  poM'cr- 
ful  as  he  could.  But  the  toil  of  being  standard-bearer  in  the  great 
struggle,  which  demanded  all  his  force  and  concentration  of  purpose, 
was  too  much,  even  for  him. 

The  excitement  of  the  Presidential  camjjaign,  one  unusually  per- 
sonal and  ferocious,  tried  the  strength  of  his  mind  and  heart.  The 
strong  abuse  and  misrepresentation  and  calumny  that  poured  for 
months  upon  his  head  would  have  crushed  a  man  stronger  than  he 
was.  Then  there  was  the  long  watch  by  the  bedside  of  his  dying 
wife.     Can  we  wonder  that  the  man  broke  and  fell  ? 

In  every  character  there  is  some  fault.  His  chain  of  life  may 
have  broken  at  its  weakest  part.  If  he  was  very  enthusiastic,  very 
sanguine,  very  hopeful ;  if  he  was  assailed  by  any  vision  of  coming 
pride  in  the  shape  of  power  or  influence,  we  must  think  that  these 
infirmities  are  common  to  all.  If  he  was  ambitious,  let  us  remem- 
ber that  while  ambition  is  the  vice  of  vulgar  mmds,  it  is  only  the 
infirmity  of  all  wiser  men. 

If  we  are  sometimes  disposed  to  charge  him  with  being  en- 
thusiastic, we  must  remember  that  enthusiasts  are  not  so  many 
that  we  can  slander  them.  I  always  wish  to  welcome  and  pay 
tribute  to  any  one  who  illustrates  in  his  own  fashion  that  manhood, 
justice,  and  love  are  the  divine  powers  in  the  world.  That  man  is 
my  friend.  I  will  cover  over  his  infirmities  with  that  i)crfect 
mantle  of  charity  which  covers  the  sins  of  the  world. 

HIS   LIFE   A   LESSON    OF    UOPE. 
[T7u}  Rev.  J.  Be  Witt  Talmage,  at  tJie  Central  Congregational  Church,  Brooklyn.] 

Horace  Greeley  is  dead.  There  ought  to  be  in  the  life  of  this 
man  a  lesson  for  the  struggling.  Our  young  men  sometimes  think 
they  have  no  chance,  no  money,  no  elaborate  education.  You  have 
as  much  chance  as  this  boy  had. 

Look  at  the  lad  in  Vermont,  in  homespun  clothes  dyed  with  but- 
ternut bark,  helping  his  father  get  a  scant  living  out  of  a  poor 
piece  of  ground.     One  who,  with  bare  feet  and  tow  shirt,  helped  his 


VOICE   OF  THE  PULPIT   AND   THE   PKESS.  81 

father  to  raise  a  living  for  mother  and  sisters  has  a  right  to  publish 
fifty  books  concerning  "  What  I  Know  about  Farming." 

See  the  white-headed  lad  getting  otf  the  Albany  tow-boat  at  the 
New  York  Battery,  moneyless  and  friendless,  and  sitting  on  the 
steps  of  a  printing-oiiice  waiting  for  the  "  boss "  to  come.  Then 
look  at  him  occupying  the  foremost  editorial  chair  of  the  world  ! 
Have  you  no  chance?  He  who  has  a  good,  industrious  mother 
graduates  from  a  university  higher  than  that  of  Berlin  or  Edin- 
bui'gh. 

Many  are  waiting  for  institutions  to  make  them  and  for  friends 
to  make  them.  Fool !  "Why  don't  you  make  yourself?  Columbus 
was  a  weaver,  ^sop  a  slave,  Hogarth  a  carver  of  pewter  plate, 
Horace  Greeley  entered  New  York  with  $10.75  in  his  pocket. 

You  say  it  was  genius  or  eccentricity.  No,  it  was  work.  Many 
a  man  has  tried  to  copy  Horace  Greeley,  but  got  nothing  but  his 
poor  handwriting  and  his  slouched  hat.  It  was  work  that  made  the 
man.  This  providence  ought  to  be  a  warning  to  overworked  liter- 
ary men.  Mr.  Greeley  told  me  ten  days  before  his  nomination  at 
Cincinnati  that  he  had  not  had  a  sound  sleep  in  fifteen  years ! 
Brethren  of  literary  toil,  we  had  better  slow  up — put  down  brakes. 

We  find  in  this  solemn  providence  the  doctrine  of  brotherhood. 
All  parties  feel  it.  The  moment  this  death  was  announced  it  hushed 
everything  and  broiight  to  a  close  the  meanest  chapter  of  personal 
vituperation.  When  this  nation,  next  week,  follows  Horace  Greeley 
to  Greenwood,  you  will  not  be  able  to  tell  who  were  Republicans 
and  who  Liberal  Republicans. 

All  the  States  will  vote  for  him  as  a  man  worthy  of  honor,  and 
by  the  electoral  college  of  the  world  he  will  be  proclaimed  presi- 
dent of  all  the  great  reformatory  republics  of  the  last  twenty  years. 
How  quickly  the  nation  has  grounded  arms !  The  trumpets  that 
sounded  the  triumph  of  his  political  opponent  will  deepen  into  the 
■grand  march  for  the  dead. 

Mr.  Greeley  was  the  champion  of  temperance  principles  and  the 
foe  of  all  intoxicating  drinks.  He  saw  the  ruin  intemperance  had 
wrought  among  men  in  his  own  profession,  and  heard  the  snapping 
heart-strings  of  widows  and  orj^hans  robbed  by  the  fiend  that  squats 
in  the  rum-bottle  and  sweats  in  the  brewery,  the  smoke  of  its  tor- 
ment ascending  forever  and  forever. 

The  preacher  in  conclusion  said  : 

Let  the  nation  uncover  its  brow  and  carry  forth  its  illustrious 

d 


82  MEMORIAL   OF   HORACE    GREELEY. 

dead.  Along  the  streets  where  he  once  trudged  a  weary  boy  and 
afterward  a  weary  man,  let  him  be  carried.  Hang  out  signals  black 
and  white.     Black  for  the  woe  and  white  for  the  resurrection. 

Across  the  river  bring  him  into  our  own  midst,  where  he  was 
always  welcome,  and  then  on  to  Greenwood.  Toll  long  and  loud 
the  bells  at  the  gates.  Then  lay  him  down  to  rest  under  the  snow, 
the  first  good  rest  he  has  had  in  thirty  years. 

THE    FRUITS    OF    A    GOOD    LIFE. 

[TTie  Bev.  E.  C.  Sweetser,  at  the  Bleecker  Street  Unitersalist  C7iurc7i.] 

"  Fame  is  a  vapor  ;  popularity  an  accident ;  riches  take  wings ; 
the  only  earthly  certainty  is  oblivion  ;  no  man  can  foresee  what  a  day 
may  bring  forth  ;  while  those  who  cheer  to-day  will  often  curse 
to-morrow."  These  are  the  words  of  one  of  America's  most  noble- 
hearted  and  clear-sighted  sons,  whose  recent  melancholy  death  has 
filled  the  land  with  mourning,  and  his  own  life-long  experience, 
well  known  to  all,  clothes  them  Avith  fresh  significance  and  added 
power. 

Horace  Greeley  had  fame  ;  he  knew  it  for  an  empty  vapor.  He 
had  popularity ;  it  did  not  sustain  him  in  his  time  of  need.  He 
gathered  riches ;  but  his  own  generosity  lent  them  wings.  He  was 
cheered  one  day  and  cursed  the  next  by  the  self-same  men ;  and 
oftentimes  the  coming  day  brought  forth  events  for  him  which  all 
his  wisdom  could  not  foresee — sometimes  pleasant  and  sometimes 
bitter — more  often  bitter. 

And  now  he  is  gone,  and  the  tomb  will  shortly  claim  its  own. 
Oblivion  may  some  time  cover  his  name  with  the  thick  dust  of 
ages,  so  that  the  eyes  of  men  will  no  more  decipher  it  upon  the 
pages  of  history,  and  if  so,  his  words,  which  I  have  quoted,  will  be 
all  fulfilled.  But  that  oblivion,  if  ever  it  comes,  is  far  away.  His 
memory  now  is  fresh  in  the  minds  of  all  his  countrymen,  and  of  mul- 
titudes in  distant  lands,  and  "^herever  his  name  is  spoken  it  is  with 
tones  of  respect  and  sorrow. 

A  nation  grieves  for  his  departure.  His  character  stands  out  in 
glorious  colors  before  the  world.  Even  those  who  were  once  his 
enemies  speak  of  him  now  in  words  of  esteem.  In  his  death  he  has 
reaped  a  reward  more  precious  far  than  any  glittering  earthly 
bauble  or  temporary  place  of  power  within  the  gift  of  his  fellow- 
men.. 

The  blessings  of  a  united  people  follow  him   to  make  heaven 


VOICE   OF  THE   PULPIT   AND   THE  PEESS.  83 

brighter  and  its  enjoyments  sweeter  to  his  risen  soul.  And  even 
while  he  was  here  on  earth  he  found  much  happiness  amid  all  his 
trials,  toils,  and  disappointments. 

"My  life,"  said  he,  "has  been  busy  and  anxious,  but  not  joy- 
less ;"  and  the  reason  follows,  although  he  did  not  state  it  so.  "  I  am 
grateful," he  continued,  "that  it  has  endured  so  long, and  that  it  has 
abounded  in  opportunities  for  good  not  wholly  unimproved,  and  in 
experiences  of  the  nobler  as  well  as  the  baser  impulses  of  human 
nature." 

In  those  opportunities  for  good,  not  unimproved,  lay  the  secret 
of  his  life's  best  joys,  and  of  the  tokens  of  sincere  esteem  which  his 
death  has  drawn  from  every  town  and  hamlet  in  the  land — not 
in  these  earthly  vanities  of  which  he  had  so  much  experience,  and 
which  he  understood  so  well. 

A    MAN    OF   POWER. 

[The  Rev.  Henry  Ward  Beecher,  at  Plymouth  Church,  Brooklyn — in  part.] 
The  pall  of  death  hangs  over  the  community.  Our  thoughts  are 
turned  toward  one  who  was  the  light  of  all  our  dwellings  ;  a  man 
of  great  and  various  powers ;  a  man  of  very  noble  ambition ;  a  man 
of  enoi'mous  industry ;  a  man  that  never  undei'took  anything  except 
that  which  in  his  judgment  was  for  the  good  of  the  community ;  a 
man  that  has  gone  successfully  through  a  rough  and  stormy  life  to 
an  old  age. 

If  you  should  write  exactly  the  right  word,  write,  a  man  that 
lived  in  a  stormy  time  and  threw  his  heart  and  soul  into  what  he 
thought  the  best  things  for  the  whole  world.  By-and-by,  when  the 
excitement  of  the  times  shall  have  passed  away,  we  shall  say  other 
things  and  form  a  better  judgment.  We  should  say  many  things, 
doubtless,  which  it  would  be  unadvised  to  speak  now. 

THK    people's    servant. 

[Hie  Bev.  Mr.  Eepworth,  at  Steinway  Hall.} 
A  great  sorrow  has  fallen  unexpectedly  upon  the  nation  within 
the  past  three  days.  We  never  know  how  much  we  have  learned 
to  love  great  and  good  men  until  they  are  in  their  coffins.  While 
they  were  with  us  we  thought  little  of  them,  but  when  they  had 
passed  away  we  gratefully  remembered  them. 

Every  young  man  could  learn  a  great  and  useful  lesson  from  the 
great  and  good  man  who  had  so  recently  left  us.     Throughout  the 


84  MEMORIAL  OF  HORACE  GREELEY. 

country  the  flags  had  been  placed  at  half-mast  as  a  tribute  to  this 
great  man,  and  bells  had  been  tolled  in  honor  of  his  memory*. 

Had  he  been  born  among  the  high  and  the  noble,  and  had  he 
pursued  the  even  tenor  of  his  way,  he  might  have  died  unnoticed ; 
but  our  hearts  were  moved  because  he  began  life  fifty  years  ago  in 
the  depths  where  we  are  now  beginning,  our  eyes  turned  on  the 
lofty  heights  which  he  had  attained.  Circumstances  were  against 
him,  but  he  fought  and  conquered  them. 

He  had  won  by  strict  integrity,  physical  temperance,  great  self- 
control  ;  by  having  a  lofty  aim,  and  never  yielding  until  he  had  won 
the  fight.  Before  he  died  his  was  one  of  the  strongest  influences,  if 
not  the  strongest,  in  the  land. 

Agree  or  disagree  with  him,  you  had  to  acknowledge  that.  Men 
loved  him  who  had  never  seen  him.  His  electric  influence  flashed 
its  presence  over  the  land.  Senates  were  influenced  by  him  although 
he  was  not  a  monarch,  but  the  occupant  of  an  editor's  chair — the 
power  behind  the  throne  which  is  greater  than  the  throne  itself. 

He  was  loved  and  trusted  by  the  whole  people,  even  when  they 
most  difiered  from  him.  He  had  a  warm  place  in  the  American 
heart,  and  twenty  years  from  now  he  will  have  a  still  warmer  place 
there. 

A   TOUCHING   PERSONAL   TRIBUTE. 

[From  the  New  York  World,  Nov.  30.] 

A  great  light  of  American  journalism,  and  perhaps  the  most 
remarkable  American  of  his  period,  breathed  his  last  a  little  before 
seven  o'clock  yesterday  evening.  It  has  never  been  our  lot  to  re- 
cord a  death  whose  surroundings  and  antecedents  impressed  us  with 
such  a  sense  of  mournful  and  even  tragic  pathos. 

That  of  President  Lincoln  had,  indeed,  more  of  the  horror  of  a 
certain  kind  of  stage  effect;  but  it  fell  short  of  this  in  the  affecting 
api:)eal  it  makes  to  the  deepest  sympathies  of  our  common  human 
nature,  and  its  power  to  touch  those  deep  well-springs  of  feeling 
which  are  the  fountain  of  unaffected  tears. 

We  write  these  sad  lines  with  a  tide  of  emotion  jiouring  into  our 
swimming  eyes ;  and  although  it  hardly  becomes  a  man,  much  less 
a  journalist  in  the  discharge  of  his  public  functions,  to  let  his  feel- 
ings get  control  of  him,  we  can  not  dissemble  the  grief  which  takes 
possession  of  us  at  this  afflictive  termination  of  a  great  career,  and 
this  terrible  smiting  of  two  ingenuous  young  hearts,  the  virtuous, 
interesting,  gifted,  doubly-orphaned  daughters,  one  in  tlie  bud  and 


VOICE  OF  THE   PULPIT   A^^D   THE  PRESS.  85 

the  other  in  the  opening  blossom  of  a  beautiful  womanhood,  who, 
with  the  little  interval  of  a  month,  lose  both  their  parents,  under 
circumstances  so  fitted  to  crush  the  life  out  of  their  desj^iring 
hearts. 

May  God  pity  and  bless  them !  In  their  credulous,  confiding 
natures,  their  happy  inexperience  of  the  coarse  ways  of  politics,  and 
their  filial  love  and  reverence,  we  may  find  excuses  enough  for  the 
fond  visions  "wdth  which  their  young  minds  were  many  months  daz- 
zled, of  seeing  their  father  the  honored  head  of  the  nation,  and  en- 
joying the  pride  he  would  have  felt  in  a  nation's  confidence. 

The  rude  dashing  of  this  cup  from  their  lips  was  an  afiliction,  but 
an  afiliction  which  they  would  easily  have  borne,  caring  little  for 
it  in  their  womanly  fidelity,  beyond  their  sympathetic  grief  in  their 
father's  disappointment.  More  prostrating  strokes  were  in  reserve 
for  them  to  darken  their  young,  innocent  lives. 

The  loss  of  a  mother  who  had  doted  on  them,  whose  first  and 
last  thought  in  the  long  years  of  her  physical  infirmity  and  sufiering 
was  devoted  to  their  welfare,  filled  them  with  such  poignant  grief 
that  they  no  longer  cared  anything  for  the  result  of  the  Presidential 
election,  except  so  far  as  they  felt  its  bearing  on  the  hajDpiness  of 
their  father. 

But  when  he  is  so  suddenly  taken  from  them,  it  must  be  a  heart 
of  stone  that  does  not  commiserate  the  fate  of  these  guileless,  most 
interesting,  unprotected  orj^hans.  Their  youth,  their  sex,  their  in- 
nocence, inexperience,  and  attractive  personal  quahties,  must  cause 
every  feeling  heart  to  bleed  for  them.  Poor,  yearning,  forsaken, 
shorn  lambs,  to  whom  the  fierce  winter  wind  is  not  tempered  ! 

Poor  Mr.  Greeley  is  gone;  and  no  coveted  appreciation  can 
longer  soothe,  nor  any  censure  wound  him.  Perhaps  no  kindly 
human  heart  ever  so  yearned  for  sympathy,  or  so  eagerly  coveted, 
or  was  so  deeply  grateful  for,  just  appreciation.  No  man  who  was 
a  great  power  in  the  politics  of  his  time  was  ever  so  far  removed 
from  the  character  of  a  stoic. 

Any  friend  who  was  free  from  all  suspicion  of  interested  motives, 
could  easily  find  the  way  to  the  inner  citadel  of  his  gentle  heart. 
Though  an  unsparing  controversialist,  he  bore  no  malice,  even  in  the 
heat  of  political  contention ;  and  no  man  ever  responded  more 
warmly  to  the  personal  esteem  of  party  antagonists. 

Even  with  Stephen  A.  Douglas  his  relations  and  intercourse 
rested  on  a  footing  of  the  frankest,  heartiest  good-will ;  and  there 


86  MEMORIAL   OF   HORACE   GREELEY. 

have  been  recent  instances  in  which  he  gave  his  confidence  to  politi- 
cal opponents  with  a  more  trusting  iinreserve — if  it  were  permitted 
us  to  mention  them. 

But  in  all  such  personal  confidences  he  was  a  most  uncompro- 
mising asserter  of  his  own  opinions,  and  his  friends  outside  of  his 
own  i^arty  could  never  for  a  moment  doubt  that  it  was  their  persons, 
not  their  politics,  which  he  tolerated.  It  was  like  the  interchange 
of  courtesies  between  the  oflicers  of  hostile  armies,  wherein  the 
tokens  of  personal  esteem  leave  no  sort  of  doubt  that  each  side  will 
do  his  utmost  in  the  next  day's  battle. 

Such  mutual  recognition  of  military  ability  and  personal  worth 
imply  no  sort  of  infidelity  to  the  cause  for  which  each  party  fights. 
Men  of  honor  and  stable  convictions  are  under  no  obligation  to  deny 
the  virtues  or  the  abilities  of  their  adversaries. 

The  heart  of  the  present  writer  was  never  so  deeply  touched  and 
moved,  as  when,  amid  the  stray  autumn  leaves  falling  from  the 
trees  of  Greenwood,  while  Mrs.  Greeley's  cofiin,  with  its  covering 
of  black  cloth  (we  remember  that  in  our  boyhood,  in  Mr.  Greeley's 
native  State,  we  never  saw  a  coflin  which  was  not  black),  was  borne 
from  the  hearse  to  the  opening  of  the  family  vault,  through  lines  of 
reverent,  uncovered  heads — we  say  we  can  never  forget  the  heart- 
breaking impression  made  upon  its  by  Mr.  Greeley's  fixed  and  most 
wistful  look  directed  upon  us  on  that  mournful  occasion,  as  if  crav- 
ing the  deep  sympathy  to  which  our  long  intimate  relations  entitled 
him,  and  which  he  could  not  doubt  that,  above  all  the  other  pall- 
bearers, we  were  ready  to  give  to  the  bereaved  husband,  and  the 
half-orphaned,  stricken  daughters,  the  pet-lambs  of  his  fond,  yearn- 
ing, paternal  heart. 

It  was  the  last  time  that  his  eyes  and  ours  ever  exchanged  an 
affectionate,  recognizing  look ;  and  we  deplore  our  neglect  to  seek 
him  out  and  pour  our  free  sympathy  into  his  craving,  responsive 
breast,  after  that  sad  scene  was  over.  The  earnest,  wistful  looks  he 
then  fixed  upon  us  will  never  be  eftaced  till  our  dying  day.  "We 
beg  that  readers  will  pardon  us  for  this  i;nseem]y  mastery  Avhich  our 
emotions  have  got  over  an  habitually  cold  pen.  Something  must 
be  pardoned  to  the  infirmity  of  our  poor  human  nature. 

AYe  have  really  no  heart  for  the  duty  which  is  laid  upon  us  on 
this  occasion.  If  our  feelings  would  permit  us  to  take  the  position 
of  mere  outside  spectators,  the  fit  thing  for  us  to  do  would  be  to 
make  a  just,  uncolored  estimate  of  Mr.  Greeley's  character  and  ca- 


VOICE   OF  THE   PULPIT   AND   THE   PllESS.  87 

reer.  But  the  circumstances  of  bis  death  strike  us  as  so  inexpressi- 
bly tragic  and  affecting  that  we  have  no  command  of  our  critical 
faculties. 

It  is  difficult  to  think  of  anything  beyond  the  grief-inspiring  spec- 
tacle of  such  a  death,  following  so  swiftly  upon  the  great  eclipse  and 
extinguishment  of  the  hopes  which  Mr.  Greeley  had  good  reasons 
for  entertaining  during  some  stages  of  the  recent  crushing  canvass. 
"  The  stars  in  their  courses  "  seemed  to  fight  against  him. 

He  returned  from  that  fatiguing  tour  in  the  "West,  in  which  his 
faculties  shone  out  in  a  surprising  blaze  of  culminating  splendor,  to 
find  his  poor  wife  in  the  last  stages  of  her  long  decline  ;  and  with 
a  devotion  like  that  which  he  felt  in  the  days  of  their  early  youthful 
love,  before  time  and  disease  had  impaired  her  beauty,  or  domestic 
trials  had  effaced  the  bloom  of  their  first  affection,  he  was  constantly 
at  her  bedside,  with  the  fidelity  of  a  ministering  angel,  passing 
anxious  days  and  sleepless  nights  which,  under  less  exigent  cir- 
cumstances, would  have  been  due  to  repose  after  his  recent  exhaust- 
less  labors. 

The  strain  upon  his  physical  endurance,  and  the  more  tremen- 
dous strain  upon  his  quick,  emotional  susceptibilities,  were  too  much 
for  him.     The  bow  was  not  only  bent,  but  broken. 

The  strength  of  a  constitution  never  weakened  by  any  other  ex- 
cesses than  overwork  gave  way  ;  the  chances  of  life  which  belonged 
to  him  by  hereditary  longevity  (both  his  father  and  grandfather 
lived  to  be  upward  of  eighty)  were  squandered ;  and  the  vessel  so 
rudely  tossed  in  these  recent  tempests  was  thrown  upon  the  beach, 
an  utter  wreck.  It  is  the  saddest  ending  of  a  vigorously-useful  life 
that  we  have  ever  known. 

We  must  defer,  for  a  day  or  two,  the  estimate  which  might  rea- 
sonably be  expected  of  us  of  Mr.  Greeley's  great  career  as  a  journal- 
ist, and  his  important  relations  to  the  public  life  of  the  country. 
How  can  we  proceed  to  a  cool,  critical  dissection  of  his  character 
while  his  body  is  scarcely  yet  cold  in  the  conquering  embrace  of 
death  ? 

We  hope  to  recover  sufficient  equanimity  for  this  necessary  task, 
but  we  do  not  possess  it  now.  Had  Ave  been  merely  outside  specta- 
tors of  his  life,  this  duty  might  not  have  been  difficult ;  but  having 
been  admitted  to  his  intimate  confidence,  having  seen  him  for  many 
years  in  his  hours  of  relaxation,  having  known  every  member  of  his 
family  in  a  constant  interchange  of  pleasant  hospitalities,  it  does  not 


88  MEMOEIAL   OF  HOEACE    GREELEY. 

lie  in  our  hearts  to  coolly  take  his  measure  as  wo  could  easily  have 
done  if  we  were  in  the  position  of  mere  outside  spectators. 

Our  grief  and  sympathy  get  the  better  of  us,  and  our  sorrow  is 
too  deep  and  sincere  to  permit  us  to  utter  anything  now  but  this 
unrestrained  outpouring  of  our  feelings.  Within  a  day  or  two,  when 
we  have  recovered  our  composure,  we  shall  recur  to  this  melancholy 
subject,  and  try  to  do  justice  to  a  great  reputation  achieved  in  our 
own  loved  jjrofession. 

THE    GREAT  WORK    OP   A   NOBLE   LIFE. 
[From  the  New  York  World,  Dec.  3.] 

Mr.  Greeley  lived  through  the  most  eventful  era  in  our  public 
history  since  the  adojjtion  of  the  Federal  Constitution,  For  the 
eighteen  years  between  the  formation  of  the  Republican  party  in 
1854  and  his  sudden  death  in  1872,  the  stupendous  civil  convulsions 
through  which  Ave  have  passed  have  merely  translated  into  acts, 
and  recorded  in  our  annals,  the  fruits  of  his  thinking  and  the  strenu- 
ous rehemence  of  his  moral  convictions. 

Whether  he  was  right  or  wrong  is  a  question  on  which  opinions 
will  differ;  but  no  person  conversant  with  our  history  will  dispute 
the  influence  which  this  remarkable  and  singularly-endowed  man 
has  exerted  in  shajiing  the  great  events  of  our  time.  Whatever 
may  be  the  ultimate  judgment  of  other  classes  of  his  countrymen 
respecting  the  real  value  of  his  services,  the  colored  race,  when  it 
becomes  sufficiently  educated  to  appreciate  his  career,  must  always 
recognize  him  as  the  chief  author  of  their  emancipation  from  slavery 
and  their  equal  citizenship.  Mr.  Lincoln,  to  whom  their  ignorance 
as  yet  gives  the  chief  credit,  was  a  chip  tossed  on  the  surface  of  a 
resistless  wave. 

It  was  Mr.  Greeley,  more  than  any  other  man,  who  let  loose 
the  winds  that  lifted  the  waters  and  drove  forward  their  foaming, 
tumbling  billows.  Mr.  Greeley  had  lent  his  hand  to  stir  public 
feeling  to  its  profoundest  depths  before  Mr.  Lincoln's  election  be- 
came possible.  He  contributed  more  than  any  other  man  to  defeat 
the  compromise  and  settlement  for  which  Mr.  Lincoln  and  his  chief 
adviser,  Mr.  Seward,  were  anxious  in  the  exciting,  expectant  winter 
of  18C()-1,  and  to  precipitate  an  unavoidable,  bloody  war. 

It  was  he,  carrying  a  majority  of  the  Republican  party  with 
him,  who  kept  insisting,  in  the  early  stages  of  the  conflict,  that  the 
emancipation  of  the  slave  was  an  indisi^ensable  element  of  success. 


VOICE   OF   THE  PULPIT  AND   THE  PEESS.  89 

Mr.  Lincoln  stood  out  and  resisted,  ridiculing  an  emancipation  proc- 
lamation as  "a  bull  against  the  comet."  Mr.  Greeley  roused  the 
Republican  party  by  that  remarkable  leader  signed  by  his  name 
and  addressed  to  Mr.  Lincoln,  headed  "  The  Prayer  of  Twenty 
Millions,"  the  effect  of  which  the  President  tried  to  parry  by  a 
public  letter  to  the  editor  of  The  Tribune^  written  with  all  the 
dextrous  ingenuity  and  telling  aptness  of  phrase  of  which  Mr.  Lin- 
coln was  so  great  a  master. 

But  Mr.  Greeley  victoriously  carried  the  Republican  party, 
which  he  had  done  more  than  all  other  men  to  form,  with  him ; 
and  within  two  months  after  Mr.  Lincoln's  flouting  reply  to  the 
"  Prayer  of  Twenty  Millions,"  his  reluctance  was  overborne,  and 
he  was  constrained  to  issue  his  celebrated  Proclamation,  which 
committed  the  Government  to  emancipation,  and  staked  the  success 
of  the  war  on  that  issue. 

This  culminating  achievement,  the  greatest  of  Mr.  Greeley's  life, 
is  the  most  signal  demonstration  of  his  talents.  It  was  no  sudden 
random  stroke.  It  was  the  effect  of  an  accumulated,  ever-rising, 
widening,  deepening  stream  of  influence,  which  had  been  gathering 
volume  and  momentum  for  years,  and  whose  piling  waters  at  last 
burst  through  and  bore  down  every  barrier. 

Mr.  Greeley  had  long  been  doing  all  in  his  power  to  swell  the 
tide  of  popular  feeling  against  slavery,  and  it  was  chiefly  in  conse- 
qence  of  the  tremendous  force  he  had  given  to  the  movement  that 
that  barbarous  institution  was  at  last  swept  away.  It  is  the  most 
extraordinary  revolution  ever  accomplished  by  a  single  mind,  with 
no  other  instrument  than  a  public  journal. 

It  may  be  said,  indeed,  that  Mr.  Greeley  had  many  zealous 
coadjutors.  But  so  had  Luther  able  coadjutors  in  the  Protestant 
Reformation  ;  so  had  Cromwell  in  the  Commonwealth ;  so  had 
Washington  in  our  Revolution ;  so  had  Cobden  in  the  repeal  of  the 
Corn  Laws.  They  are,  nevertheless,  regarded  as  the  leading  minds 
in  the  respective  innovations  which  they  championed;  and  by  as 
just  a  title  Mr.  Greeley  wall  hold  the  first  place  with  posterity  on 
the  roll  of  emancipation.  This  is  the  light  in  which  he  will  be 
remembered  so  long  as  the  history  of  our  times  shall  be  read. 

It  may  be  said,  again,  that  Mr.  Greeley's  efforts  in  this  direction 
were  aided  by  the  tendencies  of  his  time.  But  so  were  Luther's, 
and  Cromwell's,  and  Washington's,  and  everybody's  who  has  left  a 
great  mark  on  his  age,  and  accomplished  things  full  of  consequences 


90  MEMORIAL   OF  HOEACE   GEEELET. 

to  future  generations.  The  first  qualification  for  exerting  tliis  kind 
of  fruitful  iijfluence  is  for  the  leader  to  be  in  complete  sympathy 
with  the  developing  tendencies  of  his  own  epoch. 

This  is  necessary  to  make  him  the  embodiment  of  its  spirit,  the 
representative  of  its  ideas,  the  quickener  of  its  passions,  the  reviver 
of  its  courage  in  adverse  turns  of  fortune,  the  central  mind  -whom 
other  advocates  of  the  cause  consult,  whose  action  they  watch  in 
every  new  emergency,  and  whose  guidance  they  follow  because  he 
has  resolute,  unflagging  confidence  to  lead.  In  the  controversies  in 
which  Mr.  Greeley  has  been  behind  his  age,  or  stood  against  the 
march  of  progress,  even  he  has  accomplished  little. 

Since  Henry  Clay's  death  he  has  been  the  most  noted  and  active 
champion  of  Protection;  but  that  cause  steadily  declined  until  the 
war  forced  the  Government  to  strain  every  source  of  revenue,  and 
since  the  close  of  the  war  Free  Trade  ideas  have  made  surprising 
advances  in  Mr.  Greeley's  own  political  party. 

On  this  subject  he  was  the  disciple  of  dead  masters,  and  hung 
to  the  skirts  of  a  receding  cause ;  but  in  this  school  he  acquired 
that  dexterity  in  handling  the  Aveapons  of  controversy  which  proved 
so  effective  when  he  advanced  from  the  position  of  a  disciple  to 
that  of  a  master,  and  led  a  movement  in  the  direction  toward  which 
the  rising  popular  feeling  was  tending.  Mr.  Greeley's  name  will 
always  be  identified  with  the  extirpation  of  negro  slavery  as  its 
most  distinguished,  powerful,  and  eff"ective  advocate. 

This  is  his  valid  title  to  distinction  and  lasting  fame.  Instru- 
mental to  this,  and  the  chief  means  of  its  attainment,  he  founded  a 
public  journal  which  grew,  under  his  direction,  to  be  a  great  moving 
force  in  the  politics  and  public  thought  of  our  time.  Tliis  alone 
would  have  attested  his  energy  and  abilities,  but  this  is  secondary- 
praise. 

It  is  the  use  he  made  of  his  journal  when  he  had  created  it,  the 
moral  ends  to  which  (besides  making  it  a  vehicle  of  news  and  the 
discussion  of  ephemeral  topics)  he  devoted  it,  that  will  give  him  his 
genuine  place  in  history. 

If  he  had  had  no  higher  aim  than  to  su])ply  the  market  for  cur- 
rent intelligence,  as  a  gi'cat  merchant  supplies  the  mai'ket  for  dry 
goods,  he  would  have  deserved  to  rank  with  the  builders  up  of 
other  prosperous  establishments  by  Avhich  passing  contemporary 
wants  were  supplied,  but  would  have  had  no  claim  on  the  reir.em- 
brauce  of  coming  generations.      But  he  regarded  his  journal  not 


VOICE  OF  THE   PULPIT  AND   THE   PEESS.  91 

primarily  as  a  property,  but  as  the  instrument  of  high  moral  and 
political  ends ;  an  instrument  whose  great  potency  for  good  or  ill 
he  fully  comprehended,  and  for  whose  salutary  direction  he  felt  a 
corresponding  responsibility. 

His  simple  tastes,  inexpensive  habits,  his  contempt  for  the  social 
show  and  parade  which  are  the  chief  use  made  of  wealth,  and  the 
absorption  of  his  mind  in  other  aims,  made  it  impossible  for  him  to 
think  of  The  Trihune  merely  as  a  source  of  income,  and  he  always 
managed  it  mainly  with  a  view  to  make  it  an  efficient  organ  for 
diflusing  opinions  which  he  thought  conducive  to  the  public  welfare. 

It  was  this  Avhich  distinguished  Mr.  Greeley  from  the  founders 
of  other  important  journals  which  have,  in  recent  years,  been  taken 
from  us.  With  him  the  moral  aim  was  always  paramount,  the 
pecuniary  aim  subordinate.  Journalism,  as  he  looked  upon  it,  Avas 
not  an  end,  but  a  means  to  higher  ends.  He  may  have  had  many 
mistaken  and  some  erratic  opinions  on  particular  subjects ;  but  the 
moral  earnestness  with  which  he  pursued  his  vocation,  and  liis  con- 
stant subordination  of  private  interest  to  public  objects  nobly  atone 
for  his  occasional  errors. 

Among  the  means  by  which  Mr.  Greeley  gained  and  so  long 
held  the  first  place  among  American  journalists,  was  his  manner  of 
writing.  His  negative  merits  as  a  writer  were  great;  and  it  would 
be  surprising  to  find  these  negative  merits  so  rare  as  to  be  a  title  to 
distinction,  if  observation  did  not  force  the  faults  he  avoided  so 
perpetually  upon  our  notice.     He  had  no  verbiage. 

TV"e  do  not  merely  mean  by  this  that  he  never  used  a  superfluous 
word  (which  in  fact  he  rarely  did),  but  that  he  kept  quite  clear  of 
the  hazj',  half-relevant  ideas  which  incumber  meaning,  and  are  the 
chief  source  of  prolixity.  He  threw  away  every  idea  that  did  not 
decidedly  help  on  his  argument,  and  expressed  the  others  in  the 
fewest  words  that  would  make  them  clear. 

He  began  at  once  where  the  pith  of  his  argument  began,  and 
had  the  secret,  possessed  by  few  writers,  of  stopping  the  moment 
he  was  done,  leaving  his  readers  no  chaff  to  sift  out  from,  the  simple 
wheat.  This  perfect  absence  of  cloudy  irrelevance  and  incum- 
bering superfluity  was  one  source  of  his  popularity  as  a  writer.  His 
readers  had  to  devour  no  husks  to  get  at  the  kernel  of  wliat  he 
meant. 

Besides  these  negative  recommendations,  Mr.  Greeley's  style  had 
positive  merits  of  a  very  high  order.     The  source  of  these  was  iu 


92  MEMORIAL  OF  IIOEACE  GREELEY. 

the  native  structure  of  his  mind ;  no  training  could  have  conferred 
them ;  and  it  was  his  original  mental  qualities,  and  not  any  special 
culture,  that  pruned  his  writing  of  verbiage  and  redundancies. 
Whatever  he  saw,  he  saw  with  wonderful  distinctness.  Whether 
it  happened  to  be  a  sound  idea  or  a  crotchet,  it  stood  before  his 
mind  with  the  clearness  of  an  object  in  sunlight. 

He  never  groped  at  and  around  it  like  one  feeling  in  the  dark. 
He  saw  on  which  side  he  could  lay  hands  on  it  with  the  firmest 
grasp.  It  was  his  vividness  of  conception  which  made  Mr.  Greeley 
so  clear  and  succinct  a  writer.  He  knew  precisely  what  he  would 
be  at,  and  he  hastened  to  say  it  in  the  fewest  words. 

His  choice  of  language,  though  often  homely,  and  sometimes 
quaint  or  coarse,  was  always  adapted  to  his  purpose.  He  had  a 
great  command  of  racy  phrases  in  common  use,  and  frequently  gave 
them  an  unexpected  turn,  which  enlivened  his  style  as  by  a  sudden 
stroke  of  wit  or  grotesque  humor.  But  these  touches  were  rapid, 
never  detained  him;  he  kept  grappling  with  his  argument  and 
hurried  on. 

This  peculiar  style  was  aided  by  the  ardor  of  his  feelings  and  his 
vehement  moral  earnestness.  Bent  on  convincing,  he  tried  to  flash 
his  meaning  on  the  minds  of  his  readers  in  the  readiest  and  manhest 
way ;  and  he  Avas  so  impatient  to  make  them  see  the  full  force  of  his 
main  points  that  he  stripped  them  as  naked  as  he  could. 

This  combined  clearness  of  conception,  strength  of  conviction, 
and  hurrying  ardor  of  feeling,  were  the  sources  of  a  style  which 
enabled  him  to  write  more  than  any  other  journalist  of  his  time,  and 
yet  always  command  attention.  But  he  is  a  model  which  none  can 
successfully  imitate  without  his  strongly-marked  individuality  and 
peculiarities  of  mental  structure.  •  We  have  mentioned  his  occasional 
coarseness ;  but  it  was  merely  his  preference  of  strong,  direct  ex- 
pression to  dainty  feebleness  ;  he  was  never  vulgar. 

Mr.  Greeley  has  contributed  to  the  surprising  growth  and  de- 
velopment of  journalism  in  our  time  chiefly  by  his  successful  eSbrts 
to  make  it  a  guide  of  public  opinion,  as  well  as  a  chronicle  of 
important  news.  In  his  hands,  it  was  not  merely  a  mirror  which 
indifierently  reflects  back  the  images  of  all  objects  on  which  it  is 
turned,  but  a  creative  force ;  a  means  of  calling  into  existence  a 
public  opinion  powerful  enough  to  introduce  great  reforms  and 
Bweep  down  abuses. 

He  had  no  faith  in  purposeless  journalism,  in  journalism  which 


VOICE   OF  THE  PULPIT  A:XD   THE   PEESS.  93 

has  so  little  insight  into  the  tendencies  of  the  time  that  it  shifts  its 
view  from  day  to  day  in  accommodation  to  transient  popular  ca- 
prices. No  great  object  is  accomplished  without  constancy  of  pur- 
pose, and  a  guide  of  public  opinion  can  not  be  constant  unless  he 
has  a  deep  and  abiding  conviction  of  the  importance  of  what  he 
advocates, 

Mr.  Greeley's  remarkable  power,  when  traced  back  to  its  main 
source,  will  be  found  to  have  consisted  chiefly  in  that  vigorous 
earnestness  of  belief  which  held  him  to  the  strenuous  advocacy  of 
measures  which  bethought  conducive  to  the  public  welfare,  whether 
they  were  temporarily  popular  or  not. 

Journalism  may,  perhaps,  gain  more  success  as  a  mercantile 
speculation  by  other  methods ;  but  it  can  be  respected  as  a  great 
moral  and  political  force  only  in  the  hands  of  men  who  have  the 
talents,  foresight,  and  moral  earnestness  which  fit  them  to  guide 
public  opinion. 

In  was  in  this  sense  that  Mr.  Greeley  was  our  first  journalist,  and 
nobody  can  successfully  dispute  his  rank,  any  more  than  Mr.  Ben- 
nett's could  be  contested  in  the  kind  that  seeks  to  float  on  the 
current  instead  of  directing  its  course.  The  one  did  most  to  render 
our  American  journals  great  vehicles  of  news,  the  other  to  make 
them  controlling  organs  of  opinion.  Their  survivors  in  the  profes- 
sion have  much  to  learn  from  both. 

HE   FOUGHT   A   GOOD   PIGHT. 

[From  the  New  York  Rerald!\ 

We  have  the  sorrowful  intelligence  to  communicate  to  our  readers 
this  morning  of  the  death  of  Horace  Greeley,  late  the  distinguished 
editor  of  The  JVeio  YorJc  Tribune,  and  but  yesterday,  we  may  say, 
the  recipient  of  the  sufii-ages  of  millions  of  the  American  people  for 
the  highest  ofiice  in  their  gift. 

The  news  of  the  sad  event  will  profoundly  impress  the  public 
mind  throughout  the  country  and  civilized  world,  particularly  in  view 
of  the  heavy  domestic  afilictions  and  political  excitements  and  mis- 
fortunes with  which  it  is  associated. 

From  day  to  day,  for  a  week  past,  the  announcements  of  Mr. 
Greeley's  severe  mental  and  physical  prostration  have  left  this  com- 
munity and  the  country  not  wholly  unprepared  for  his  dissolution ; 
and  yet  we  say  of  him,  as  the  expiring  Indian  chief,  Red  Jacket, 
said  of  himself,  that  the  news  of  his  death  will  come  upon  his 


94  MEMORTAL   OF   HORACE   GREELEY. 

people  "  like  the  sound  of  the  fall  of  a  giant  pine  in  the  stillness  of 
the  woods."  In  a  quiet  homestead  by  the  Hudson,  with  a  vail  of 
virgin  snow  over  the  face  of  nature,  as  the  evening  shadows  began 
to  fall,  his  heart  beat  more  and  more  faintly,  and  after  a  pause, 
broken  only  by  feverish  mutterings,  he  opened  his  lips  to  say,  "  I 
know  that  my  Redeemer  liveth  ;  it  is  done  ;"  and  then  passed  away. 

He  is  only  one  of  many  examples  of  this  character;  but  few 
against  such  obstructions  have  achieved  so  much  as  he  in  substantial 
and  enduring  honors.  If  he  was  ambitious,  his  was  that  lofty  ambi- 
tion of  generous  minds,  whose  highest  aspirations  are  the  good  of 
his  fellow-men  ;  if  he  had  his  eccentricities,  they  were  those  of  the 
genuine  American  Republican  and  the  ardent  philanthropist ;  if  his 
political  course  is  marked  by  some  strange  perturbations,  they  only 
bring  into  bolder  relief  his  general  consistency,  strength,  earnestness 
and  intrepidity  of  character. 

As  a  teacher  of  the  practical,  domestic  economies,  he  may  well 
be  called  "  our  later  Franklin ;"  as  a  champion  of  equal  rights,  he 
was  an  advanced  disciple  of  Jefferson ;  as  the  advocate  of  his 
American  system,  he  was  an  advanced  disciple  of  Henry  Clay ;  while 
as  a  teacher  of  the  science  of  agriculture,  his  name  has  become  a 
household  word  in  every  farm-house  in  the  country. 

To  the  adopted  citizen  fresh  from  the  trammels  of  less  liberal 
governments  across  the  Atlantic  his  name  has  been  as  potent  as  his 
wholesome  advice  and  generosity  were  proverbial.  When  a  mis- 
taken fanaticism  j^reached  death,  or  almost  death,  to  the  foreigner, 
Mr.  Greeley  was  ever  to  be  found  in  this,  as  in  other  things,  on  the 
side  of  the  humble  and  oppressed. 

His  character  as  a  citizen,  friend,  and  neighbor,  is  "sa??s  pexn\ 
sans  reprocheP  As  his  life  was  admired,  his  death  will  be  regretted 
by  a  countless  host  of  friends  in  both  hemispheres,  and  of  all  creeds 
and  races  of  men ;  and  his  enemies  will  be  disarmed  in  striking 
the  balance  between  his  merits  and  his  failings. 

In  that  broad  field  of  journalism  which  embraces  liberty  to  tlio 
slave,  relief  to  the  sick  and  unfortunate,  comfort  to  the  poor,  knowl- 
edge to  the  ignorant,  and  the  general  elevation  of  the  human 
family,  we  recognize  in  the  loss  of  Mr.  Greeley  the  loss  of  a  powei*- 
ful  public  benefactor.  To  sum  up  his  merits  in  a  Avord — he  has,  in 
the  battle  of  life,  fought  a  good  fight ;  he  leaves  an  honored  name 
behind  him,  and  the  high  reward  of  an  encouraging  example  as  an 
American  journalist  and  a  self-made  man. 


VOICE   OF  THE   PULPIT   AIS^D   THE   PEESS.  95 

AN"   HONEST,    FEARLESS    MAN". 

[From  the  Neic  York  Expi-ess.'] 

Of  Mr.  Greeley's  career,  for  forty  years,  as  a  journalist  in  this 
city,  thirty-one  years  of  it  on  The  Tribune,  we  do  not  propose  to 
speak,  as  all  this  was  discussed  at  length  and  frequently  in  the  recent 
canvass.  As  a  man,  he  had,  as  most  great  men  have,  marked  faults, 
mingled  with  great  virtues.  No  man  ever  possessed  greater  intelli- 
gence or  industry  in  his  profession. 

He  was  honest  in  character,  earnest  in  the  assertion  of  truth, 
bold  in  the  denunciation  of  error,  and  clear  as  light  in  the  illustra- 
tion of  all  subjects  upon  whicli  he  wrote.  He  was  a  great  instructor 
from  the  platform,  but  without  magnetism  in  his  speech,  and  no  ora- 
tor. His  English  was  of  the  very  best,  written  or  spoken — concise, 
compact,  and  logical. 

If  he  imitated  anybody  in  writing  of  himself  or  upon  jjlain  sub- 
jects, it  was  Benjamin  Franklin ;  and  at  times  he  reminded  us  of 
the  vigorous  thought  and  words  of  Thomas  Paine  and  Cobbett. 
He  believed  in  hard  words  and  hard  blows,  but,  as  in  his  tw^o  re- 
markable papers  dissolving  the  partnership  with  Seward,  Weed,  and 
Co.,  and  in  his  reply  to  the  summons  of  the  Union  League  for  be- 
coming bail  for  Jefferson  Davis,  he  always  had  a  reason  for  the  faith 
that  was  in  him. 

He  was  impulsive  and  often  eccentric,  but  in  this  line  not  all 
what  his  enemies  often  represented  him  to  be.  His  generosity  was 
only  limited  by  his  means  of  giving,  and  if  not  always  wise,  it  was 
always  from  the  heart  and  intended  for  good. 

It  is  no  dispai'agement  to  the  living,  or  to  the  memory  of  the 
dead,  to  say  that  for  thirty  years  he  has  been,  as  a  writer  of  power 
and  influence,  at  the  head  of  the  journals  of  the  country,  and  there 
are  few,  indeed,  in  the  profession,  among  the  thousands  who  survive 
him,  who  will  not  own  his  worth  and  regret  his  loss. 

His  last  words  were,  "  I  know  that  my  Redeemer  liveth."  This 
is  knowledge,  indeed — the  opening  of  the  invisible  world  to  human 
eyes  in  this  tabernacle  of  flesh;  the  hope  of  immortality;  the  sight 
of  one  who  knows,  not  in  part,  but  as  he  is  known,  nor  sees  through 
the  glass  darkly;  but,  passing  beyond  the  river  of  life,  there  sees, 
face  to  face,  the  one  altogether  lovely  in  the  person  of  the  Son  of 
God. 

How  true,  then,  amid  this  Providence,  which  we  call  a  calamity, 
it  is  the  survivor  dies,  and  that  misfortunes  come  not  singly,  but 


96  MEMORIAL   OF  HORACE    GREELEY. 

in  battalions.      In  a  brief  month  two  loving  daughters  are  made 
orphans. 

The  little  son  and  brother,  who  was  the  great  j^ride  and  ardent 
hope  of  father  and  mother,  long  ago  led  the  way  to  "  the  undiscov- 
ered country  from  whose  bourne  no  traveler  returns."  These  now 
rest  from  their  labors,  leaving  our  deepest  sympathies  for  those  who, 
for  a  time  only,  are  left  alone  in  the  world.  "  May  God  temper  the 
winds  to  his  shorn  lambs." 

A.   MAN  WITHOUT   ENEIVnES. 
[From  the  New  York  Comm&i'cial  Advertiser.'] 

The  M-hole  land  is  saddened  by  the  intelligence  of  the  death  of 
this  distinguished  man,  and  as  the  tidings  make  the  circuit  of  the 
globe,  under  every  sky  there  will  be  many  to  deplore  a  death  which, 
to  human  ken,  seems  so  untimely.  Mr.  Greeley  had  actually  no 
enemies. 

There  were  those  who  condemned,  or  criticised,  or  smiled  at  his 
theories  and  his  works ;  but  the  man  was  the  center  of  no  great  and 
settled  dislike.  The  almost  unanimity  with  which  his  life-long  po- 
litical foes,  forgetting  the  sharp  conflict  he  had  persistently  waged 
against  them,  came  to  his  support  in  the  late  election  campaign,  is  a 
singular  illustration  of  the  truth  of  our  remark. 

There  was  much  in  him  to  win  the  affection  and  esteem  of  others. 
His  life  was  pure.  He  was  thoroughly  alive  to  every  appeal  of 
charity  and  every  claim  that  suffering  or  outraged  humanity  might 
prefer.  He  always  championed  decency  and  good  order.  His  pen 
and  tongue  never  purposely  countenanced  wrong.  Beside  this,  he' 
was  frank  and  outspoken  in  his  judgments,  whether  of  praise  or 
condemnation. 

No  man  failed  to  know  precisely  wdiere  Horace  Greeley  stood, 
or  failed  to  comprehend  the  pith  and  persistence  of  whatever  war- 
fare he  waged.  It  is  as  an  editor  and  controversialist  that  Mi*.  Gree- 
ley is  best  known  to  the  world.  Ardent  and  impulsive,  he  early 
took  sides  on  almost  every  subject  of  debate,  and  to  some  of  tlie 
positions  he  then  assumed  he  has  clung  with  unabated  ardor  and 
steadiness. 

His  judgment  has  been  most  at  fault  on  social  questions,  but 
during  the  last  few  years  his  opinions  on  these  topics  have  been 
more  closely  in  accordance  with  those  that  are  ordinarily  accepted. 
I>ut  upon  the  questions  of  Temperance,  Protection,  and  Slavery,  he 


VOICE  OF  THE  PULPIT  A1S"D   THE  PEESS.  97 

has  never  departed  from  his  first  convictions,  and  tliese,  during  a 
long  and  busy  life,  he  has  contended  for  with  a  force  and  vigor,  a 
fertility  of  resource,  and  a  plentitude  of  illustration  never  surpassed. 

And  it  Avas  precisely  here  that  Mr.  Greeley  was  chiefly  conspic- 
uous. He  was  a  master  of  the  English  language.  No  one  ever 
commanded  a  choicer  or  a  richer  diction.  He  was  eminently  forci- 
ble and  pithy.  His  arguments  were  strong,  compact,  and  earnest, 
and  his  pungent  paragi'aphs  were  ever  pervaded  by  a  flavor  of  ge- 
niality that  gave  them  raciness  and  zest. 

It  was  Mr.  Greeley's  desire  and  aim  to  create  a  great  newspaper, 
in  all  respects  fully  abreast  of  the  great  currents  of  thought  and  in- 
fluence. The  claims  of  politics  had  thwarted  and  shackled  this  pur- 
pose, but  when,  after  the  fatal  5th  of  November,  he  returned  to  his 
old  chair  in  The  Tribune  office,  he  promised  "  to  give  a  wider  and 
steadier  regard  to  the  progress  of  science,  industry,  and  the  useful 
arts  than  a  partisan  journal  could  do,"  and,  "  sustained  by  a  gener- 
ous public,  he  would  do  his  best  to  make  The  Tribune  a  power  in 
the  broader  field  it  now  contemplates." 

Undoubtedly,  in  the  future,  Mr.  Greeley  would  have  given  such 
direction  to  his  journal  as  would  have  made  it  a  power  in  the  new 
field  he  proposed  to  occupy.  But  right  here,  at  the  close  of  his 
busy  and  contentious  career,  and  at  the  dawn  of  what  he  promised 
should  be  a  new  life,  he  is  cut  down  long  before  his  usefulness  had 
ended,  and  when  years  of  industry  and  activity  spread  out  before 
him. 

At  the  age  of  sixty-one,  with  a  constitution  utterly  uncontarai- 
nated  by  indulgence,  temperate,  moral,  accustomed  to  out-door  ex- 
ercise, in  the  fullest  vigor  of  his  mental  power,  he  was  the  last  per- 
son one  would  think  likely  to  succumb  so  soon. 

Yet  he  had  suifered  much.  Anxious  vigils,  weary,  days  and 
nights,  the  sight  of  his  wife  dying  before  his  eyes,  the  solicitudes 
"of  a  fierce  partisan  campaign,  the  afflictions  of  those  most  dear  to 
him,  the  results  of  the  election,  all  told  upon  a  sensitive  organiza- 
tion, strained  to  its  utmost  tension,  and  giving  way  suddenly  and 
unexpectedly.  The  great  editor  is  gone,  but  his  memory  will  be 
forever  green  in  the  recollections  of  his  countrymen. 

THE  LOSS  TOO  GREAT  TO  BE  REALIZED  NOW". 

\From  the  New  York  Evening  Mail.] 
After  all,  the  final  and  comprehensive  verdict  upon  the  great 


98  MEMOEIAL   OP  HORACE   GEEELEY. 

career  wMch  has  just  closed  will  not  come  soon,  Xot  until  the 
passions  and  prejudices  that  liave  sprung  out  of  tlie  many  fierce 
contests  in  wliich  jVIr.  Greeley  has  fought,  with  so  much  zeal  and 
power,  have  subsided,  will  either  friends  or  foes  assign  him  his  true 
and  lasting  position. 

At  present  m'C  can  feel — ah  !  too  keenly — how  great  a  place  has 
been  made  vacant  that  Avill  "  know  him  no  more  forever."  That 
wonderful  combination  of  soul  and  body  which  we  have  known  as 
Horace  Greeley  has  ceased,  and  we  shall  never  see  its  like  again. 

When  we  remember  how  tliat  stalwart  and  active  spirit  entered 
into  the  daily  life  and  thought  of  a  continent  of  newspaper  readers, 
how  it  was  felt  as  a  constant  power  in  politics  and  in  all  discussions 
of  the  day,  how  in  tens  of  thousands  of  families  it  was  ever  present 
as  a  teacher  and  guide,  how  in  all  circles  and  among  all  conditions 
of  men  it  was  a  living  influence,  and  how  every  marked  individuality 
of  his  character  was  known  to  all — we  may  begin  to  realize  what 
has  been  with  us  and  what  we  have  lost. 

A  nation's  loss. 
[From  tJie  New  York  Evening  Telegram.l 

At  6:50  o'clock  yesterday  Horace  Greeley  died.  The  moment 
came  at  last  Avhen  death. bore  away  in  triumph  the  life  for  which 
affection  and  science  had  been  vainly  battling,  and  to-day  the 
whole  nation  mourns  over  the  great  loss  which  it  has  sustained  in 
the  death  of  Mr.  Greeley,  journalist,  philpsophcr,  politician,  gentle- 
man. The  qualities  of  Mr.  Greeley's  mind  were  of  too  lofty  a 
nature  to  admit  of  hasty  notice.  The  time  will  come  when  a  proper 
estimate  of  the  man  will  be  made  by  one  qualified  for  the  task. 
Now  we  can  but  praise  and  mourn.  In  the  shadow  of  death  the 
virtues  of.  the  deceased  shine  transcendently  forth  and  invite  the 
admiration  of  the  world. 

His  life  was  one  of  sturdy  struggle.  From  early  boyhood  he 
has  had  to  breast  the  waves,  and  win  through  hard  struggle  the 
place  which  he  gained  at  last. 

But  Mr.  Greeley  dead  will  cease  to  reign  none  the  less  in  the 
hearts  of  his  countrymen.  The  lesson  taught  by  such  a  life  as  his 
has  been  can  not  but  have  a  beneficial  effect  upon  the  minds  of  the 
youth  of  the  land. 

In  life  we  honored  and  admired  the  man,  and  when  lie  was 
called  upon  to  lead  a  new  movement  in  American  politics,  we  sup- 


VOICE   OF   THE   PULPIT  AND   THE  PRESS.  99 

ported,  his  claims.  In  death  we  mourn  his  loss,  and  think  that 
many  years  will  elapse  before  the  nation  is  gifted  with  such  another 
son,  at  once  so  gentle  and  so  great,  so  modest  and  yet  so  brilliant, 
so  widely  known  and  so  much  respected. 

HIS    PLACE    IN    HISTORY    YET   TO    BE    EIXED. 

[Fro7n  the  Neio  York  Bulletin.'] 

!N"o  event  since  the  death  of  Abraham  Lincoln  has  so  deeply 
touched  the  nation's  heart.  Mr.  Greeley  was  greater  in  his  political 
defeat  than  most  men  are  in  their  greatest  victory. 

He  astonished  his  warmest  friends  and  disarmed  the  resentment 
of  his  opponents  by  the  marvelous  eloquence  and  intellectual  re- 
sources of  his  speeches  during  the  political  campaign  which  none 
could  have  anticipated  would  prove  only  a  campaign  of  death. 

His  brain,  always  worked  to  its  highest  tension,  could  not  endure 
the  enormous  additional  strain  ;  and  this,  combined  with  the  de- 
mands on  his  always  powerful  emotional  nature,  proved  too  much 
for  even  his  robust  constitution.  The  news  of  his  death  produced  a 
deep  and  unusual  sense  of  personal  loss  and  bereavement ;  for  the 
individuality  of  the  man  was  enormous,  and  was  constantly  mani- 
fested in  all  his  writings  and  speeches. 

He  died  in  the  full  meridian  of  his  powers,  and  when  he  still 
seemed  to  have  a  future  before  him  worthy  of,  and  commensurate 
with,  his  past  career.  We  may  criticise  this  or  that  particular  act 
of  his  life,  or  wish  that  he  had  adojDted  a  different  line  in  certain 
matters  of  public  policy. 

But  the  time  has  not  yet  come  to  fix  his  true  place  in  history. 
For  an  entire  generation  he  boi*e  a  prominent  part  in  the  great 
events  that  attracted  the  attention  of  his  countrymen  and  of 
mankind. 

And  it  is  scarcely  too  much  to  affirm  that,  saving  only  Washing- 
ton and  Jefferson,  no  single  American  had  made  a  deeper,  broader 
mark  on  his  country's  history  than  Horace  Greeley.  The  future 
of  every  cliild  that  may  be  henceforth  born  in  our  country  will  be 
more  or  less  affected  because  of  this  one  man  that  has  passed  away 
from  us  to  be  seen  no  more  forever. 

A   TRUE    HERO. 

{From  the  Neio  York  Dispatch.'] 
A  busy,  useful,  and  honorable  life  has  ended.     Horace  Greeley  is 


100  MEMOEIAL   OF   HORACE   GEEELEY. 

dead.  For  upward  of  thirty  years  he  has  held  a  foremost  place  in 
the  eyes  of  his  countrymen,  and  in  all  that  time  he  has  struggled 
with  a  devotion  unsurpassed  for  the  elevation  of  his  fellows,  the 
amelioration  of  tho  condition  of  the  poor,  the  destruction  of  caste, 
and  a  higher  individual  and  national  purity. 

His  has  been  an  active  life,  full  of  noble  effort,  and  marked  by  a 
moral  courage  which  feared  no  detraction  and  scorned  all  unworthy 
applause.  His  death  will  be  mourned  as  sincerely  as  that  of  any 
man  whom  this  country  has  possessed  for  years.  He  has  had  many 
opponents,  but  few  enemies. 

Even  those  who  most  bitterly  opposed  his  views  had  always  a 
kindly  thought  for  the  man  who  dared,  in  the  face  of  obloquy  and 
misrejiresentation,  to  stand  by  the  right,  as  God  had  given  him  the 
light  to  see  it — for  the  man  who  was  never  swayed  from  his  devo- 
tion to  principle  by  ignoble  motives,  and  whose  whole  life  was  an 
example  of  personal  and  public  righteousness  worthy  the  admira- 
tion and  imitation  of  mankind.     He  lived  the  life  of  a  true  hero — 

of  one 

"  Who  reverenced  his  conscience  as  his  king ; 
Whose  glory  was  redressing  human  wrongs." 

At  last  the  true  and  loyal  heart  has  found  the  quiet  which  it 
never  felt  in  life;  for  while  human  wrong  existed,  while  tyranny 
oppressed  the  weak,  while  there  were  poor  who  needed  succor,  or 
while  there  was  injustice  anywhere,  the  kind  heart  of  Horace 
Greeley  could  have  no  peace.  He  has  gone  from  us  in  the  ripeness 
of  his  intellect  and  the  fullness  of  his  usefulness,  and  the  people 
mourn  his  loss  as  they  would  that  of  a  near  and  dearfriend. 

GREAT   AND    GOOD, 

[From  the  New  York  Star.'] 

The  touching  tribute  of  Tlie  Tribune  to  the  memory  of  its  illus- 
trious founder  is  the  key-note  to  a  chorus  of  testimony  throughout 
the  continent.  The  greatness  of  Mr,  Greeley  was  only  equaled  by 
his  goodness. 

Of  great  men  the  world  has  had  many,  and  of  the  number  the 
young  Republic  has  furnished  its  full  quota ;  and  of  good  men  the 
rccc.rds  speak  volumes,  but  the  distinguished  dead,  of  whom  it  can 
be  truly  said,  "  He  was  great  as  well  as  good,"  can  be  counted  on 
the  fingers. 

His  family  claim  our  earliest  and  most  tender  sympathy.    Rarely 


VOICE   OF   THE   PIJLPIT   A:NT>   THE   PRESS.  101 

do  afflictions  so  poignant,  so  continuous,  fall  to  the  lot  of  the  very 
young ;  and  it  would  be  idle  foi'  the  most  careful,  the  kindest  of  the 
dead  man's  friends  to  hope  to  assuage,  even  in  degree,  the  grief 
which  fills  the  hearts  and  baptizes  the  very  life  of  the  two  young 
girls,  sole  survivors  of  a  happy  family,  remarkable  for  the  strength 
and  devotion  of  its  affectionate  intercourse. 

To  the  profession  of  which  Mr.  Greeley  was  the  acknowledged 
chief,  the  loss  is  irreparable.  Within  a  few  years  the  editors  of  27ie 
Commercial,  The  World,  Tlie  Times,  and  The  Herald  have  j^assed 
away,  until  Mr.  Greeley  remained  alone  of  the  names  great  in  the 
journalism  of  to-day. 

To  him  many  a  weary  eye  has  turned,  finding  in  the  open  story 
of  his  marvelous  success  an  inspiration  for  future  struggles,  a  balm 
for  past  disaster.  To  have  built  up  a  great  power  like  that  of  The 
Tribune  was  indeed  a  matter  of  pride  and  comfort,  but  to  have  suc- 
ceeded with  honor  to  bear  still  the  unstained  reputation  of  his  youth, 
to  find  the  inner  history  of  his  inner  life  untouched  by  his  harshest 
critic,  and  to  know  that  honest  dealing  and  purity  of  living  had 
really  been  the  touch-stone  of  his  career,  was  an  added  glory  which 
few,  if  any,  of  his  rivals  could  parallel. 

It  would  be  impossible  for  the  most  intimate  of  his  friends  and 
associates,  not  employed  on  his  staff,  to  enter  appreciatively  The 
Tribune  circle  to-day.  In  every  room  his  friends  remain,  in  each 
department  much  sorrow  reigns.  The  close  companions  of  years 
loved  him  with  a  love  unknown  in  many  great  establishments. 

Perhaps  the  late  editor  of  The  Times  more  nearly  approached 
Mr.  Greeley  in  his  power  of  magnetism  than  any  other  of  his  con- 
temporaries ;  but  it  is  doubtful  if  the  death  of  any  other  chief  could 
cause  such  heartfelt  grief  as  that  which  burdens  every  member  of 
TJie  T'ibune  corps  to-day. 

Mr.  Reid  and  his  associates  knew  the  mental  power  of  the  man, 
felt  the  quick  pulsation  of  his  genius,  and  were  inspired  to  greater 
effort  by  his  very  presence.  Mr.  Sinclair,  who  for  many  years  has 
been  the  confidant  and  close  communer  Avith  his  partner,  felt  for  him 
the  devotion  of  a  lover  and  the  interest  of  a  brother. 

And  so  it  was  in  the  composing-room,  the  press-room — every- 
where were  men  with  whom  the  close  intimacy  of  years  had  built 
up,  not  alone  admiration  of  intellect,  but  afiectionate  regard  and 
personal  interest. 

The  poor  and  the  despised  have  cause  of  gratitude  that  he  was 


102  MEMORIAL    OF    HORACE   GREELEY. 

born,  the  profession  he  honored  has  cause  of  gratitude  that  he  was 
guided  to  its  ranks  and  found  its  very  van,  and  the  great  party  of 
which  he  was  the  corner-stone,  whose  path  to  conquest  and  glory 
was  hewn  by  liim,  has  every  reason  to  shout  praises  in  his  honor, 
closing  the  feverish  chasm  of  the  later  past  Avith  the  palms  of  recog- 
nition and  the  myrtle  of  remembrance. 

A  nation  will  do  his  memory  honor,  the  President  of  his  native 
land  will  join  his  voice  to  those  of  millions  in  liis  praise.  The  pro- 
fession of  his  choice  will  cheerfully  accord  him  the  merit  he  deserved, 
and  we  doubt  not  the  object  of  his  aifectionate  i:)ride,  the  building 
of  his  best  and  manliest  eiforts,  will  in  long  time  to  come  feel  the 
grand  influence  of  his  memory  and  renew  his  labors  for  humanity 
for  his  very  name's  sake. 

NO  EVIL  TO  LIVE  AFTER  HIM. 

[Frain  tlie  New  York  Sunday  News.'] 

Censors  shall  look  in  vain  for  any  evil  that  Horace  Greeley 
has  done  that  shall  live  after  him ;  a  sorrowing  nation  will  attest 
that  he  has  done  much  good  that  shall  not  be  interred  Avith  his 
bones. 

In  times  when  political  antagonism  was  of  the  bitterest,  we  were 
his  political  opponent;  but,  however  bitter  the  strife,  we  opposed 
him  without  personal  antipathy,  even  as  brothers  have  struck  broth- 
ers in  battle,  with  violence  in  their  arms,  but  with  good  feeling  in 
their  hearts. 

Latterly  it  has  been  our  fortune — one  that  we  shall  never  regret 
— to  sustain  him  and  his  principles  in  political  conflict;  but  though 
we  had  remained  his  partisan  foe  to  the  last,  we  would  have  felt 
to-day  the  same  honest  sorrow  for  his  passing  away  fi-om  earth. 

His  life  has  been  one  of  honorable  motive,  of  eftective  toil,  of 
earnest  endeavor,  of  beneficent  practical  results.  Shame  upon  the 
man  who  will  remember  his  eccentricities  and  call  them  faults  when, 
in  the  shadow  of  the  tomb,  his  virtues,  liis  nobility  of  nature,  his 
rare  kindness  of  heart,  and  the  many  services  he  rendered  to  his 
generation,  outshine  all  the  uncertain  and  clianging  lights  that  glim- 
mer upon  the  paths  of  partisansliip  ! 

There. is  one  class  of  our  fellow-citizens  that  will  learn  to  honor 
his  grave  more  than  they  appreciated  him  while  living.  No  man  in 
the  world  did  more  for  the  cause  of  the  abolition  of  slavery  ;  no  man 
in  the  world  labored  more  zealously,  more  intelligently,  more  disin- 


VOICE   OF   THE  PULPIT  AND   THE   PRESS.  103 

tcrcsteclly  for  the  advancement  of  the  interests  of  the  negro  popula- 
tion of  our  country. 

We  will  not  say  that  they  betrayed  their  benefactor;  for,  no 
doubt,  they  erred  only  in  their  judgment  of  the  man  who  had  done 
more  than  all  others  for  their  race.  The  fair  robes  of  liberty  were 
new  upon  their  limbs,  and  they  scarcely  had  time  to  realize  who  was 
foremost  in  clothing  them  in  that  priceless  apparel. 

When  they  shall  have  become  as  free  from  the  tyranny  of  dema 
gogues  as  they  are  |i-om  tlie  bonds  of  the  slaveholder,  they  will 
understand  the  error  into  wliich  they  were  entrapped,  and  the  mem- 
ory of  the  chief  champion  of  their  cause  will  be  revered  by  them 
when  too  late  to  give  him  the  thanks  that  he  deserved. 

Mr.  Greeley  was  our  candidate  for  the  Presidency  because  we 
knew  that  he  was  an  able  and  an  honest  man,  and  because  we  be- 
lieved that  his  political  principles  were  not  so  much  at  variance  with 
ours  but  that  his  ability  and  honesty  would  harmonize  the  opposing 
elements.  To-day  the  idea  of  partisanship  has  no  force  in  regard  to 
him.  It  is  lost  in  the  contemplation  of  the  loss  of  a  great  journalist, 
a  great  statesman,  a  great  and  good  American  citizen. 

A    LEADER    OF    MEN". 

[From  the  New  York  Sunday  Mercury.'] 

Three  of  the  great  editors  who  have  made  the  jiress  of  New  York 
famous  throughout  the  world,  and  a  guiding  star  and  bright  exem- 
plar to  the  journalistic  fraternity  everywhere,  are  now  no  more. 
The  relentless  harvester,  Death,  has  gathered  them  to  his  fold,  and 
those  who  for  a  brief  period  survive  them  remain  to  mourn  their 
loss. 

Raymond  and  Bennett  preceded  Greeley  on  the  dark  and  un- 
known voyage  to  the  Hereafter.  But  neither  of  the  two  former  has 
left  such  a  void  as  the  last  and  greatest  of  the  three. 

There  is  something  philosophical,  peculiar  in  the  thought  that,  as 
in  trigonometry,  three  united  in  one  complete  a  problem,  so  in  the 
rise  and  progress  of  American  journalism  to  its  present  unapproach- 
able high  and  commanding  position  the  genius  and  labors  of  these 
three  eminent  men  occurred,  each  in  his  own  characteristic  and  indi- 
vidual way. 

While  Henry  J.  Raymond  inculcated  a  style  of  controversial 
discussion  elevated  in  tone,  terse  in  argument,  mild  in  reproof,  and 
rich  in  facts,  James  Gordon  Bennett  threw  his  whole  inventive,  rest- 


104  ME:yiORiAL  of  horace  geeelet. 

less  energy  into  the  domain  of  news,  and  challenged  the  world  to 
follow  him  in  this  his  well-chosen  path,  from  which  he  never  deviated. 

Horace  Greeley  combined  in  himself  the  earnestness  of  conviction 
and  quickness  of  comprehension  of  Raymond  with  the  ceaseless 
activity  and  daring  courage  of  Bennett,  excelling  both  in  genius 
that  molded  his  faultless  sentences,  in  heart  which  beat  in  warm  sym- 
pathy with  every  human  wo,  and  in  moral  bravery  that  struck  for 
the  loftiest  aims  in  utter  disregard  of  personal  results. 

Thus  the  three  journalists  complemented  each  other,  and  together 
they  presented  to  the  world  a  triumvirate  than  which  no  country  on 
earth  was  ever  blessed  with  a  greater,  capable  of  achieving  more 
lasting  results. 

Yet  in  one  respect — and  to  his  never-waning  fame  be  it  remem- 
bered— Greeley's  memory  in  the  hearts  of  the  people  has  sunk 
deeper  and  spread  firmer  roots  than  his  career  as  a  journalist  could 
alone  have  done.  Raymond  and  Bennett  will  live  in  the  journals 
they  have  founded. 

Sharing  with  them  the  same  degree  of  immortality,  Greeley  is, 
moreover,  a  grand  historical  figure,  whose  very  thoughts  are  indel- 
ibly imprinted  upon  the  pages  of  the  history  of  his  country  for 
nearly  two  generations. 

There  lives  not  now  a  man,  there  did  not  die  a  man  within  the 
last  twenty-five  years,  whose  solitary  efforts,  whose  intellectual 
power,  whose  own  giant  strength,  contributed  a  titlie  of  what  Gree- 
ley did  to  shape  the  events  of  this  Continent  and  influencing  the 
destinies  of  the  Republic. 

With  Senatorial  heads.  Presidents  in  the  seat  of  almost  imperial 
splendor  and  power,  Cabinet  Ministers  with  thousands  of  menials 
ever  ready  to  obey  their  whispered  wishes,  Congresses  and  Courts — 
oil  felt  the  trenchant  sword  which  that  one  man  Avieldcd  above 
them,  and  whose  shining  brightness  sent  its  hopeful  glimmers  of 
light  to  the  very  verge  of  civilization,  from  the  glittering  palaces  of 
the  rich  to  the  cabins  of  the  weary  toilers  and  the  huts  of  the  down- 
trodden and  manacled  slave. 

It  was  he  who,  more  than  thirty  years  ago,  soundetl  the  shrill 
tocsin  of  war  for  freedom  to  every  human  being  that  breathed  the 
air  under  the  American  flag ;  and  although  he  was  not  the  first  wlio 
spoke  fearlessly  for  the  rights  to  liberty  of  every  man  of  every  race, 
the  genius,  the  force  of  his  individuality  soon  made  him  the  foremost 
leader  of  all  who  thought  like  him. 


VOICE   OF   THE   PULPIT   AXD   THE   PEESS.  105 

Indeed,  without  Greeley,  the  history  of  the  country  for  tlie  last 
quarter  of  a  century  would  go  to  posterity  a  vastly  different  one. 
The  judgment  of  his  contemporaries,  of  those  who  struggled  unsuc- 
cessfully against  him,  may  vary  as  to  the  genuine  wisdom  and  per- 
haps even  the  patriotism  of  his  course  in  the  earlier  years  of  his 
career.  But  none  can  deny  the  greatness  of  mind,  the  force  of  genius, 
with  which  he  combated  every  foe,  overcame  every  obstacle,  and 
brought  triumph  within  his  reach.  In  this  view  of  the  man,  he  was 
far  more  than  a  journalist  and  an  editor,  more  than  a  mere  organ  of 
public  opinion. 

He  was  the  leader  of  men  of  a  strong,  powerful,  and  at  last  vic- 
torious party,  created  by  himself  and  kindred  into  action  by  the  fire 
that  burnt  within  him.  He  was  eccentric,  as  all  men  who  do  not 
sluggishly  tread  in  the  beaten  path  of  the  multitude,  and  who  cleave 
their  own  destiny  through  the  rocks  of  adversity,  always  are. 

His  eccentricities  were  no  blemishes  on  his  character  ;  they  rather 
contributed  to  his  greatness,  and  never  before  to  such  an  extent 
as  during  the  closing  years  of  his  life.  His  love  of  mankind  was  one 
of  those  eccentric  qualities  of  his  heart,  and  his  hand  was  ever  ready 
to  extend  help  to  the  needy. 

Fiery,  fierce,  and  unrelenting  while  wrestling  with  an  enemy,  he 
relaxed  his  anger  and  held  out  the  hand  of  friendship  and  brother- 
hood to  the  vanquished  as  soon  as  the  contest  was  decided.  No 
personal  hatred,  no  savage  desires  to  glory  in  vengeance  over  a 
fallen  foe  rankled  in  his  bosom. 

"With  the  statement  of  the  cause  of  strife  he  cast  its  sad  memo- 
ries behind,  and  hailed  as  a  brother  him  who  had  been  his  enemy 
during  the  turmoil  of  the  contest.  It  was  this  intuitive  leaning  to 
the  side  of  mercy  and  paternal  benevolence  which,  in  the  eyes  of 
thousands  of  his  earlier  friends,  appeared  as  eccentric,  as  a  weak- 
ness, but  which  met  the  heartiest  approval  of  his  former  antagonists. 

It  was  the  proverbial  divinity  of  forgiveness  that  captivated  the 
broken  heart  of  the  conquered  South — that  brought  millions  of  his 
Democratic  opponents  enthusiastically  to  his  support,  and  to  rever- 
ence him  as  a  cherished  leader  in  the  cause  of  recouciUation,  of  gen- 
uine peace  in  the  land. 

The  effort  failed,  though  determinedly  made.  But  the  support 
he  gave  it,  his  devotion  to  the  cause,  and  the  surpassing  ability  he 
displayed,  have  still  more  endeared  him  to  the  people  ;  and  now  at 
his  grave,  into  which  he  so  suddenly  descended,  stands  a  nation  in 


106  MEMORIAL   OF   IIOKACE   GllEELEY. 

mourning,  witli  no  discordant  eclioes  to  disturb  its  grief,  no  dissent- 
inix  voice  to  mar  the  general  sorrow. 

It  IS  almost  providential  aptness,  that  witli  the  failure  of  the 
great  move  of  which  he  was  once  the  originator  and  the  leader,  lie 
liiinself  should  step  from  the  stage  and  be  buried  in  the  grave 
to  which  his  last  and  most  humane  ideal  of  national  brotherhooil  and 
reconciliation  has  been  unhappily  consigned. 

The  drift  of  his  mind,  when,  at  the  last  jnonient  of  his  earthly 
existence,  it  had  returned  from  its  wild  wanderings  in  illness,  seemed 
to  indicate  that  a  spirit  of  devout  resignation  had  filled  his  heart. 
"  It  is  finished  ! "  were  the  last  words  that  came  from  his  lips  and 
winged  his  soul  to  its  untraccd  flight,  the  same  words  that  were 
uttered  by  his  Redeemer  on  the  cross. 

With  our  appreciation  of  the  character  of  Horace  Greeley,  as  it 
developed  and  became  crystalized  in  later  years,  we  could  not  say 
less  than  we  have.  For  many  years  we  have  used  every  known 
journalistic  weapon  to  parry  his  tlirusts,  and  in  the  heat  of  battle 
bloAvs  were  exchanged  that  left  their  marks  on  both  contestants. 

His  later  fervent  appeals  to  the  humane  sentiments  of  charity 
and  magnanimity  have  made  us  forget  our  former  antagonisms,  and 
now  standing,  in  thoiight,  beside  his  corpse,  we  join  the  cntii'e 
Amei'ican  people  in  their  sorrow. 

We  hope  that  all  will  agree  that  the  fittest  mode  to  do  reverence 
to  his  memory  is  to  adhere  to  the  benign  principles  in  the  advocacy 
of  which  death  overtook  him,  and  to  renew  all  legitimate  efforts  to 
secure  their  final  success.  The  policy  of  reconciliation,  once  tri- 
umphant, would  be  the  grandest  monument  the  people  could  erect 
to  the  memory  of  their  departed  leader  and  statesman. 

IIOXORED    ABOVE    HIS    ASSOCIATES. 

[From  the.  New  York  Commercial  Advertiser,  Bee.  3.] 
To-day  all  that  is  mortal  of  our  late  lamented  brother  in  the 
ranks  of  journalism  lies  in  state  at  the  City  Hall.  To  the  memory 
of  no  other  representative  of  the  Press  have  such  honors  ever  been 
awarded  as  those  which  await  the  memory  of  this  fallen  giant. 
Here,  where  his  busy  life  Avas  chiefly  spent — in  this,  the  theater  of 
his  greatest  achievements,  it  is  meet  that  surpassing  demonstrations 
should  be  made.  And  yet  from  all  parts  of  the  land,  of  which  the 
telegraph  or  exchange  lists  give  us  information,  comes  suflUcient  evi- 
dences of  profound  sorrow  and  heartfelt,  appreciative  tributes  to 


VOICE  OF  THE   PULPIT  AND   THE  PRESS.  107 

show  that  the  whole  nation  joins  in  a  noble  emulation  of  the  spirit 
in  M'hich  New  York  does  homage  to  the  genius  and  virtues  of  her 
illustrious  dead. 

ONE    OF   THE    BEST   EEPEESEXTATIVES    OF    HIS    COUNTRY. 

[F)-om  tJie  New-  Yorker  Journal.'] 

On  Saturday  evening,  ten  minutes  before  seven  o'clock,  Horace 
Greeley  departed.  The  intelligence  of  his  death  will  give  rise  to 
mourning  throughout  the  land.  With  the  friends,  admirers,  and 
"party  associates  of  the  deceased,  the  greater  part  of  those  who,  a 
short  time  ago,  were  his  political  opponents,  will  be  united  to  honor 
his  memory,  and  pay  him  the  tribute  of  just  appreciation. 

The  American  people  lose  in  him  one  of  their  best  and  most  ca- 
pable men,  an  earnest  patriot,  a  great  journalist,  and  a  high-minded 
friend  of  humanity.  While,  for  many  years,  he  exercised  a  mighty 
influence  on  public  opinion,  he  has  done  his  country  great  and  mem- 
orable services,  notwithstanding  his  manifold  errors. 

The  prominent  position  which  he  occupied  during  the  last  few 
months  made  him  liable  to  numerous  and,  to  him,  severe  attacks ; 
but  it  secured  for  him  many  new  friends,  conciliated  many  former 
opponents,  and,  notwithstanding  his  want  of  su.ccess,  gave  him  the 
ojjportunity  to  secure  new  and  permanent  honor,  by  his  activity  in 
favor  of  harmony  and  reconciliation.  His  name  will  go  to  posterity 
as  that  of  one  of  the  best  and  most  distinguished  representatives  of 
this  country  and  this  age. 

A    GOOD    SAMARITAN. 
\^From  the  Neic  York  Sunday  NeiDS.I 

"  It  is  done  !  "  were  the  last  words  of  Hoi-ace  Greeley.  Nothing 
left  for  him  to  complete — the  purpose  of  his  life  was  fulfilled.  He 
rested  from  his  long  labors  ;  he  had  overcome  a  world  of  wrong ; 
the  great  principles  of  human  rights  had,  in  him,  triumphed.  His 
part,  at  least,  was  secure.  That  had  gone  into  history — and  now  he 
is  entirely  historical. 

Silence  is  our  safest — surely  our  deepest  and  most  touching — ■ 
eloquence,  when  we  stand  by  the  coflin  of  the  recent  dead.  Yet 
the  heart  will  speak.  It  is  not  of  the  statesman,  the  writer,  the 
controversialist,  the  politician,  or  the  great  editor,  that  we  tliink  to- 
day. 

It  is  the  man,  the  "  good  Samaritan,"  that  passed  not  the  wound- 


108  MEMORIAL   OF  HORACE   GREELEY.^ 

ed  by ;  the  kindly  neighbor,  and  the  firm,  constant  friend,  that 
occupies  our  thouglit.  There,  in  the  lone  house  of  sorrow  at  Chap- 
paqua,  he  lies  cold  and  dead  this  bleak  December ;  but  around  that 
house  and  its  orphaned  children  the  warm  sympathies  of  this  nation 
center  and  speak  comforting  words  to  them. 

In  a  few  days  "  his  body  will  be  committed  to  the  earth,  in  the 
hope  of  a  blessed  resurrection."  Then  it  will  be  timely  to  estimate 
his  intellectual  worth ;  to  describe  his  characteristics ;  to  enumerate 
and  value  his  labors  in  full  and  in  detail. 

But,  at  this  moment  of  his  descent  into  the  grave,  let  us,  with 
heads  reverently  bent,  and  breathing  low,  in  silent  thought,  muse 
upon  "what  shadows  we  are  and  what  shadows  we  pursue,"  and 
how  the  mighty  ones  fade  away  from  our  siglit  into  the  world  that 
shall  endui'e  forever  and  ever. 

He  has  an  abiding-place  in  the  tenderest  memory  of  this  genera- 
tion, who  knew  him  and  esteemed  him.  But  after  this  generation 
shall  have  moldered  into  the  common  dust  of  those  who  have  pre- 
ceded it,  the  figui'e  of  Horace  Greeley  will  be  conspicuous  among 
the  line  of  great  Americans  that  illumine  the  pages  of  history,  and 
will  be  as  familiar  to  coming  centuries  as  that  of  Samuel  J  ohnson  or 
Benjamin  Franklin  is  to  us ;  and  his  beloved  Chajjpaqua  can  not 
be  passed  by  the  traveler,  even  from  foreign  lands,  without  a  feeling 
akin  to  that  which  is  now  awakened  in  the  presence  of  Sunnyside 
or  Mount  Yernon. 

THE    FIRST   JOURXALIST    OF    AilERICA. 

[From  Le  Messager  Franco-Amencain.'] 

The  death  of  Mr,  Greeley  is  a  national  event,  not  because  he 
was  a  candidate  for  the  Presidency,  but  because  he  was  the  first 
journalist  of  America. 

As  such  he  has  probably  been  invested  with  a  greater  ^ower, 
and  he  exercised,  perhaps,  a  more  decisive  influence  on  the  des- 
tuiies  of  his  country  than  many  of  the  Presidents  of  the  United 
States.  Voltaire  has  said :  "  "We  owe  respect  to  the  living ;  we 
only  owe  truth  to  the  dead."     This  is  true  as  a  general  thesis. 

Nevertheless  it  happens  that,  before  a  tomb  which  is  yet  open, 
recent  adversaries,  less  indulgent,  manifest  a  commiseration,  a  sud- 
den sympathy  for  him  whom  they  have  vanquished  ;  and  they  desire 
to  treat  him  with  more  consideration  than  when  he  was  able  to  de- 
fend his  own  cause.     ^Ye  are  anionic  those  adversaries. 


VOICE   OF   THE  PULPIT  AXD   THE   PRESS.  109 

The  principal  title  to  glory  of  Mr.  Greeley  is  that  he  has  been  ele- 
vated by  his  talents  and  by  his  honest  labor  to  the  rank  of  the  first 
journalist  of  the  United  States.  He  was  able  to  acquire  a  large 
fortune  without  a  suspicion  against  his  integrity. 

As  a  husband  and  the  father  of  his  family  he  appears  to  have 
been  worthy  of  all  praise.  The  ideas  of  political  and  social  reform 
which  he  sustained,  his  temperate  habits,  and  the  simplicity  of  his 
tastes,  have  secured  him  the  title  of  a  philosoj^her. 

THE    GREATEST    lis'TEKEST    EXCITED    THKOUGHOUT   THE    COFNTEY. 

[Fi-om  Der  Deutsche  Correspondent.'] 

The  death  of  this  prominent  journalist  and  politician  has  excited 
the  greatest  interest  throughout  the  entire  country.  Both  his  friends 
and  his  opponents,  in  all  places,  unite  to  pay  the  tribute  of  esteem 
to  a  man,  who,  if  he  has  frequently  erred,  has  nevei'theless  earned  an 
honorable  position  in  the  memory  of  his  contemporaries  and  of  pos- 
terity. 

In  Horace  Greeley  there  has  departed  one  of  the  most  distin- 
guished citizens  of  the  United  States,  a  man  of  unusual  capacities, 
rare  perseverance,  restless  energy,  and,  without  doubt,  of  the  most 
upright  principles. 

Coming  from  destitute  circumstances,  he  presented  a  Avorthy 
example  of  a  self-made  man,  who,  in  the  last  Presidential  election, 
appeared  as  a  candidate  for  the  highest  office  in  the  republic,  and 
for  whose  personal  character  no  one  can  withhold  his  esteem. 

THE    GREATEST    OP    HIS    TIME. 

[From  the  BrooTdyn  Eagle.'] 

His  last  articulate  words,  "  I  know  that  my  Redeemer  liveth — 
it  is  done,"  are  words  wliich  fit  the  impressions  mankind  desire  to  as- 
sociate with  the  struggle  Vv'ith  the  universal  enemy — words  which 
could  not  have  been  more  cheering  to  the  worn  and  wasted  sufferer 
than  hopeful  and  comforting  to  his  most  extraordinarily  bereaved 
children. 

The  two  daugliters  who  survive  Mr.  Greeley  have  lost  within  a 
month  both  parents,  and  lost  them  under  circumstances  extremely 
impressive  and  afiiictive.  Those  parents  Avere  endowed  with  veiy 
great  gifts  of  heart  and  mind,  and  both  idolized  and  were  idolized 
by  their  ingenuous,  happy,  admirably  accomplished,  and  most  affec- 
tionate children. 


110  MEMORIAL   OF   HORACE   GREELEY. 

Can  condolence  compass  calamities  like  unto  these  ?  The  world 
which  is  stunned  into  wordless  pity  and  grief  by  such  a  series  of 
suffering,  can  best  step  back  and  leave  the  orphans  with  their  dead 
and  with  their  God.  Vain  is  the  help  of  man,  and  a  hollow  inade- 
quacy strikes  through  his  sincerest  sympathy. 

We  only  now  can  think  of  Mr.  Greeley  at  his  best,  as  the 
apostle  of  peace  and  reconciliation,  as  the  amazing  and  sincere  read- 
juster  of  many  of  the  mistakes  of  his  life,  as  he  who  at  the  last  gave 
to  mankind  what  he  had  devoted  to  party.  His  place  in  history  is 
sure,  and  will  be  high. 

To-day  he  is  mourned  as  a  great  American,  and  we  mistake,  if, 
when  reason  yields  to  panegyric,  he  be  found  greater  than  men  now 
regard  him,  and  not  to  have  been  the  greatest  in  the  time  when  he 
rose  to  the  level  of  peace  and  good-will,  and  strove  to  weld  together 
the  hearts  of  a  people,  in  the  division  of  which  he  had  been  prob- 
ably the  mightiest  agent  of  the  malign  events  during  the  most  active 
part  of  his  life. 

NO    STAIX    UPOX    HIS    MEMORY. 

[From  the  Newark  Advertiser.'] 

"When  a  journalist  dies  the  impersonality  of  the  press  ceases. 
Mr.  Greeley  never  claimed  that  sure  hedge  and  defense  of  imperson- 
ality which  other  natures,  not  more  sensitive,  would  assert.  He 
was  without  personal  faults,  other  than  those  Avhich  appertain  to  a 
highly  emotional  nature.  In  all  the  walks  of  life  he  went  in  purity. 
There  is  no  stain  upon  his  memory,  no  doubt  of  the  high  emprise 
which  dictated  every  action,  and  it  is  with  a  feeling  akin  to  tears 
that  we  record  his  tragic  death,  and  the  high  but  sacred  sorrows 
that  attend  it.  His  strong  and  robust  nature  broke  under  an  ac- 
cumulation of  disappointments  of  personal  ambition,  and  of  family 
and  financial  disaster.     But  he  leaves  a  clean  name. 

No  man  of  heart  or  true  sense  of  what  is  noble,  manly,  generous, 
and  only  too  confiding  in  human  nature,  can  have  any  other  emotion 
on  the  death  of  Horace  Greeley  than  one  of  profound  regret  for 
this  untimely  ending  of  a  noble  life,  and  of  honest  sympathy  with 
the  two  heaviest  yet  proudest  mourners,  the  daughters  whom  he  so 
loved,  and  who  have  borne  such  fearful  bereavement  in  the  loss  of 
both  a  mother  and  father  at  a  time  when  life  opened  before  them 
with  most  brilliant  promise. 


VOICE   OF   THE  PULPIT  ATs^D   THE  PRESS.  Ill 

NO  SPECK  OK  niS  CHARACTER. 
[From  tlie  Newcork  Journal.'] 
Of  Mr.  Greeley's  life  and  character  it  is  unnecessary  to  speak. 
Little  could  be  said,  if  indeed  a  word,  which  has  not  already  been 
well  said  before  by  those  best  able  to  speak.  There  is  not  a  school- 
boy in  the  land,  and  certainly  no  reasonably  Avell-informed  adult, 
who  is  not  familiar  with  the  interesting  and  instructive  story  of  the 
New  Hampshire  printer-boy,  who  forms  the  greatest  example  of  self- 
made  men  even  this  nation  of  self-made  men  has  produced.  Looking 
back  over  his  busy  life,  and  recognizing  the  great  fruits  which  his 
commanding  natural  abilities  have  ripened  into  fullness,  Ave  fail  to 
see  that  he  was  fortunate  in  a  high  degree  in  but  one  respect.  He, 
a  great  journalist,  and  long  the  recognized  opinion  of  millions  of 
people,  for  years  and  years  surrounded  by  temptations  and  opportu- 
nities to  barter  his  talents  for  unworthy  means,  for  the  vile  dross 
that  perisheth,  came  out  of  the  fire  of  thirty-odd  years  of  public 
life  without  so  much  as  a  speck  on  the  personal  j^urity  of  his 
character.  If  ever  the  word  "honest"  was  fitly  and  justly  ap- 
pended to  a  public  man's  name,  it  was  when  people  spoke  of  Honest 
Horace  Greeley. 

THE  FAITHFUL  SERVANT  OF  THE  PEOPLE. 

[From  the  Neioark  Begister.'] 
The  nation  mourns  the  dead  statesman  and  editor.  Flags  fly  at 
half-mast  in  the  principal  cities,  the  New  York  Stock  Exchange, 
Chamber  of  Commerce,  and  various  other  public-spirited  bodies  of 
men  publicly  recognize  the  loss  which  the  coimtry  has  sut-tained, 
and  the  President  of  the  United  States  himself  takes  semi-official 
notice  of  it  by  declining  an  invitation  to  the  reception  of  one  of  his 
Cabinet  ministers  for  this  reason.  New  York  is  prepared  to  testify 
her  regret  for  one  who  did  as  much  as  any  other  of  her  citizens  to 
advance  her  prosperity,  and  Mr.  Gi'eeley's  funeral  will  be  the  occa- 
sion of  general  and  public  demonstration  of  respect,  for  "  a  great 
man  has  fallen  in  Israel."  He  was  so  perversely  uncompromising 
in  the  defense  of  labor  as  something  not  entirely  at  the  beck  of 
capital,  of  manhood  apart  from  its  accidents,  of  the  truth  at  the 
largest  personal  sacrifice;  in  a  word,  he  was  such  an  erratic,  simple- 
minded,  and  "  impracticable  "  man,  with  so  keen  a  contempt  for  clap- 
trap, the  main  chance  and  the  music  of  party  shackles,  that  politi- 
cians could  hardly  be  expected  to  love  him.      l>ut  the  people  will 


112  MEMORIAL   OF   HORACE   GEEELET. 

miss  one  of  their  champions,  not  the  less  so  because  he  sometimes 
struck  an  ill-advised  or  left-handed  blow  in  their  cause.  Their 
friends  are  few,  their  flatterers  many;  the  blunt-spoken  man  that 
lies  in  his  coflin  served  them  faithfully  through  a  long  and  useful 
life ;  they  will  not  forget  him. 

MOST    IIOXOEABLE    OF    HIS    TIJIE. 

[From  tJie  Boston  Courier.'] 
The  death  of  Horace  Greeley  takes  from  American  journalism 
the  most  famous  of  its  early  leaders,  and  one  of  the  ablest  workers 
ever  enrolled  in  its  ranks.  The  brief  record  of  his  life,  which  we 
print  elsewhere,  gives  only  a  faint  idea  of  the  extent  and  influence 
of  his  labors,  and  the  most  elaborate  review  could  not  well  over- 
state them.  He  was,  moreover,  rarely  beloved  in  his  profession, 
and  the  part  he  bore  in  the  Presidential  canvass  so  lately  closed, 
despite  all  the  asperities  it  engendered,  has  tended  to  deepen  and 
widen  the  impression  long  ago  prevailing  in  narrower  circles. 
The  circumstances  attending  his  death  are  of  a  nature  to  awaken 
sympathy  and  dull  the  edge  of  criticism,  but  it  is  safe  to  say  that  no 
man  of  his  generation,  not  holding  exalted  office,  will  occupy  a 
surer  or  more  honorable  niche  in  our  country's  history  than  Horace 
Greeley. 

THE  FOEEMOST  EEPOKMER. 
[From  the  Boston  Herald.'] 
The  sudden  death  of  Horace  Greeley  will  cause  a  profound  sen- 
sation throughout  the  country,  the  more  because  of  the  prominent 
position  he  recently  occupied  as  a  Presidential  candidate.  Yet  that 
candidacy  scarcely  increased  his  fame.  His  name  had  been  a  house- 
hold word  in  the  land  for  almost  a  generation.  He  was  for  more  than 
thirty  years  one  of  the  busiest  men  in  a  busy  age.  He  took  an  active 
part  in  every  contest  of  his  time,  shrinking  from  no  issue,  but  deal- 
ing his  blows  manfully  for  what  he  believed  to  be  the  right.  Few 
men  make  so  much  of  an  impress  on  the  age  in  which  they  live.  It 
is  perhaps  enough  to  say  of  him  that  he  made  77ie  JVeio  York  Trib- 
une for  many  years  the  most  influential  journal  in  America,  and  in 
the  main  wielded  its  influence  in  behalf  of  whatever  was  highest, 
noblest,  and  best.  By  his  great  talents  and  remarkable  industry  he 
made  Tlie  Trid'itne  a  power,  and  though  his  journalistic  work  was 
the  most  important  of  his  life,  and  that  for  which  he  will  live  in  his- 


VOICE   OF  THE   PULPIT   AND   THE  PEESS.  113 

tory,  this  was  only  one  sphere  of  his  mental  activity.  lie  was  a  vo- 
luminous, intelligent,  and  effective  writer,  having  more  strength 
than  grace  of  style,  and  caring  nothing  for  literary  ornament  in  deal- 
ing directly  with  his  subject.  He  made  many  warm  friends  and 
many  bitter  enemies.  With  him  there  was  no  such  thing  as  neu- 
trality. He  was  emphatic  in  his  likes  and  dislikes,  and  frank  even 
to  bluntness  in  his  exjjression  of  them.  He  lived  and  worked  in  the 
eye  of  the  public,  and  all  his  peculiarities  and  eccentricities  were 
matters  of  common  report.  Scarcely  a  newspaper  was  published  in 
the  country  for  years  which  did  not  contain  his  name.  If  an  intelli- 
gent foreigner  had  visited  New  York  at  any  time  within  the  last 
quarter  of  a  century,  and  wished  to  see  two  or  three  representative 
men,  one  of  them  would  have  been  the  editor  of  The  Tribune.  He 
represented  his  country  in  the  capitals  of  Europe  more  constantly, 
and  generally  with  more  wisdom,  than  our  accredited  Ministers  re- 
siding in  them.  Few  Americans  were  so  well  known  by  name  in 
Europe  as  he.  Whatever  his  political  enemies  may  say  of  his  de- 
sire for  office,  he  will  be  a  foolish  man  who  disputes  his  ability,  his 
zeal,  or  his  honesty.  He  was  a  man  of  large  sympathies,  Avhich 
made  him  frequently  the  dupe  of  swindlers.  He  was  impulsive,  and 
this  characteristic  sometimes  led  him  into  uncomfortable  situations 
which  nien  of  colder  blood  and  more  groveling  natures  would  have 
avoided.  He  was  always  in  the  van  of  every  true  work  of  reform, 
but  not  so  far  ahead  as  to  lose  the  supi:>ort  of  the  main  army.  He 
seems  to  have  been  a  man  of  excellent  common  sense,  not  seeking: 
the  glory  or  the  notoriety  of  martyrdom,  taking  the  best  attainable 
advantage  with  equanimity,  and  never  losing  his  confidence  in  his 
■cause  or  in  humanity.  He  was  equally  disliked  by  the  fossil  Con- 
servatives, who  are  always  holding  back  the  progress  of  the  age, 
and  the  one-idea  Radicals,  who  are  never  satisfied  without  tearing- 
down  that  which  is  established.  The  Garrisonian  Abolitionists  were 
always  complaining  of  him,  though  he  did  more  to  abolish  slavery 
in  this  country  than  any  of  them.  The  slaveholders  abused  him, 
but  his  was  the  wisest  conservatism ;  and  recent  events  have  shown 
that  he  entertained  the  broadest  views  of  the  great  issue  which  di- 
vided the  country  so  long,  and  to  which  he  contributed  the  larger 
part  of  his  public  life.  Had  Mr.  Greeley  been  a  mere  money-getter, 
he  might  have  become  immensely  rich.  Had  he  been  a  mere  parti- 
san, he  might  have  enjoyed  the  highest  political  honors.  He  cared 
little  for  money  and  nothing  for  office  except  upon  his  own  terms. 

8 


114  MEMORIAL   OF    HOEACE   GKEELEY. 

He  was  too  generous  to  hoard  wealth,  and  too  independent  to  rest 
easy  in  the  shackles  of  a  party.  He  liad  faults  of  temper  and  judg- 
ment. If  he  had  not  made  mistakes  in  a  life  of  work  so  constant, 
so  zealous,  and  so  public,  he  would  have  been  more  than  human. 
Like  Martin  Luther,  he  was  a  born  controversialist ;  every  contest 
he  engaged  in  was  an  earnest  one,  and  he  always  handled  his  sub- 
ject without  gloves.  His  private  life  was  pure  and  above  reproach. 
His  service  to  his  country,  including  his  great  labor  in  behalf  of  lib- 
erty, justice,  and  education,  was  rounded  and  completed  by  his  last 
equally  important  service  in  the  work  of  reconciliation  between  the 
sections.  He  was  fortunate  in  his  opportunity  for  applying  the 
healing  balsam  to  the  wounds  caused  by  the  civil  war,  and  in  win- 
ning the  confidence  and  esteem  of  those  who  had  all  their  lives 
blindly  opposed  him.  Though  defeated  for  President,  he  triumphed 
in  the  work  of  reconciliation,  and  his  country  will  be  the  happier 
hereafter  because  of  the  part  he  took  in  that  work.  His  life's  work 
was  done ;  and  among  those  who  rest  from  their  labors  is  no  truer 
man,  noue  more  faithful  to  his  convictions  of  right,  or  more  indefatig- 
able in  working  for  them,  than  Horace  Greeley,  "  Founder  of  The 
New   Yorh  Tribune.'''' 

GKEAT    IN    PUBLIC    WORTH    AND    NOBLE    IN    PRIVATE    VIRTUE. 

[From  the  Boston  Post.'] 

The  death  of  Horace  Greeley,  which  is  imminent,  and  may  have 
already  occurred  ere  this  meets  the  reader's  eye,  Avill  be  a  real  mis- 
fortune to  the  nation.  The  causes  of  so  mournful  an  event  are  no 
secret. 

Between  Mr.  Greeley  and  his  late  Avife  there  existed  the  most 
intimate  affection  and  sympathy,  and  during  the  long,  weary  da5-s 
and  nights  of  her  last  illness  he  watched  at  her  bedside  with  such 
sleepless  fidelity  that  even  his  robust  constitution  gave  way  under 
the  effort. 

It  was  exhaustion  and  grief,  consequent  upon  his  devotion  and 
love  for  the  partner  of  his  struggles  and  successes,  which  brought 
him  to  the  bed  from  which,  probably,  he  will  never  rise  again ;  and 
while  the  succeeding  political  defeat  may  have  added  somewhat  to 
the  heaviness  of  his  burden,  in  the  presence  of  death  his  bitterest 
enemies  will  scarcely  ascribe  his  decease  to  the  disappointment  of  an 
unworthy  ambition. 

The  passing  away  of  a  man  of  Mr,  Greeley's  character  and  ser- 


VOICE   OF  THE   PULPIT   AND   THE  PKESS.  115 

vices  must  soften  tlie  harsh  judgments  of  his  later  public  course, 
"wliich  were  so  freely  bestowed  during  the  recent  campaign  ;  beside 
liis  coffin  all  asperities  must  pass  away,  all  differences  must  be  for- 
gotten, all  voices  of  blame  must  be  hushed,  and  those  who  railed 
most  bitterly  against  him  but  yestei'day,  must  to-day  yield  the  hom- 
age which  his  jDurity,  his  bold  and  self-abnegating  honesty,  his 
brave  warfare  against  corruption,  his  dauntless  and  unconquerable 
perseverance,  and  his  great  ability  deserve. 

Even  the  causes  and  manner  of  this  distinguished  man's  death 
must  command  the  reverential  respect  of  every  man  and  woman  in 
the  land.  He  was  a  martyr,  not  to  political  ambition,  not  to  vain- 
glorious self-seeking,  but  to  those  precious  domestic  affections  which 
are  the  crowning  virtue  of  American  homes.  He  loved  faithfully, 
and  died  for  his  love. 

The  spectacle  of  death  by  a  broken  heart — a  heart  broken  for 
the  sake  of  the  purest  and  most  sacred  of  affections,  is  not  so  com- 
mon among  the  great  of  the  earth  but  that  the  nation  may  well  pause 
to  honor  it,  and  to  cast  garlands  upon  the  grave  of  one  who,  if  not 
chosen  to  be  the  ruler  of  the  people,  was  the  devoted  and  affection- 
ate father  of  a  loving  home. 

In  the  campaign,  Mr.  Greeley  bore  himself  as  one  convinced,  and 
proud  in  the  conviction,  that  he  was  right,  and  that  he  represented 
a  great  and  good  cause ;  and  so,  departing  from  custom,  he  ap- 
peared in  public,  and  delivered  a  series  of  addresses  so  broad  and 
statesmanlike,  so  full  of  dignity,  so  enhanced  in  their  power  by  the 
earnest  accents  of  conscientious  truth,  that  they  will  be  remem- 
bered long  after  his  candidacy  shall  have  passed  into  obscure 
tradition. 

If  there  is  or  can  be  a  consolation  for  the  decease  of  Horace 
Greeley,  it  is  that  now  no  obstacle  will  remain  to  the  universal  rec- 
ognition of  his  great  public  worth  and  his  noble  private  virtues. 
His  clear  and  industrious  brain,  his  kind,  benevolent  heart,  his  active 
sympathy  for  the  suffering,  his  eloquent  indignation  at  injustice,  his 
homely  truth  and  honor,  his  genial  nature,  the  strength  of  his  friend- 
ships, the  pertinacitj^  and  purity  of  his  aims,  the  high  ideals  for 
which  he  strove  in  every  department  of  life,  and  the  touching  sig- 
nificance of  his  too  early  departure  from  earth,  will  embalm  his 
memory  in  the  grateful  reverence  and  respect  of  his  countrymen 
among  the  ever-increasing  roll  of  their  illustrious  dead. 


116  MEMORIAL   OF  nORACE    GREELEY. 

GREAT   IN    HIS    GEXERATIOX. 

[From  the  Boston  Transcrtpt.'] 

Preeminent  as  a  journalist,  he  was  in  many  ways  a  distinguished 
American,  and  one  who,  as  a  thinker  and  writer,  exerted  no  small  or 
narrow  influence  on  his  generation. 

Ilis  weakness  wherein  he  was  weak,  and  his  strength  wherein  he 
was  strong,  were  alike  patent;  and  the  recollections  of  his  busy  life, 
almost  every  hour  of  which  was  autobiographical,  either  in  present 
activities  or  recorded  reminiscences,  are  nearly  as  vivid  to  the  public 
as  they  were  to  himself. 

For  the  much  there  was  in  him  of  noble  struggle  and  endeavor, 
of  generous  impulse,  indomitable  industry,  capacity  for  unremitting 
labor,  wide  and  varied  information,  rare  gifts  of  expression  and 
diction  as  a  writer,  he  was  honored  while  living  and  will  be  honored 
in  the  memory  cherished  of  his  exceptionally  remarkable  career. 

His  sudden  decease  is  something  very  sad,  and  suggests  of  itself 
comments  no  words  are  needed  to  express.  He  died  of  overwork, 
severely  tried  in  many  respects,  and  from  a  prodigal  expenditure  of 
vital  force,  the  fatal  effects  of  which  could  not  be  avoided  even  by 
the  greatest  simplicity  and  temperance  in  caring  for  the  body  so 
constantly  taxed  by  the  toiling  brain  and  nervous  excitement. 

His  countrymen,  of  all  sections  and  parties,  will  join  the  host  of 
his  mourning  friends  in  recalling  the  numerous  bright,  instructive, 
beneficent,  and  efficient  portions  of  his  years  of  faithful  enforcement 
of  what  he  believed  to  be  for  the  good  of  his  kind,  and  unite  with 
them  in  sincere  regret  for  the  loss  of  one  whose  large  claims  to 
esteem  and  affection  are  beyond  all  cavil. 

THE    CROMWELL    OF    HIS    TIME. 

{From  the  Philadclplda  Inquirer.'] 

*'  Horace  Greeley  died  at  fifty  minutes  past  six  o'clock  this 
evening.  He  was  conscious  at  the  time,  and  his  passing  away  was 
peaceful." 

In  those  words  the  telegraph  last  night  flashed  over  the  country, 
over  the  ocean  and  the  world,  the  death  of  one  of  America's  foremost, 
most  honored,  useful  citizens — the  Cromwell  of  his  time,  surged  up 
from  the  depths  of  our  noble  Democracy  to  lead  vast  reforms  along 
the  way  to  success,  to  smite  great  blows  against  human  slavery, 
and,  not  blessing  as  he  smote,  to  Avitness  its  downfall ;  to  see  the 
land  it  dissraced  forever  free  from  its  accursed  influences. 


VOICE   OF   THE   PULPIT  AiSTD   THE  PKESS.  117 

That  was  the  work  that  his  strong  hands  and  brave  heart  and 
wise  brain  were  set  to  do,  and  that  was  the  work  that,  under  a 
beneficent  Providence,  they  accomplished. 

Dead,  at  sixty-one,  and  as  noble  duty  as  man  ever  did,  noblj 
discharged.  If  during  these  later  days  disappointments,  sorrow,  and 
pain  touched  him  sorely,  in  the  infinite  mercy  of  God  they  were  all 
swept  aside  at  the  end,  and  his  passing  away  was  full  of  peace. 

There  is  no  American  journalist,  sincerely  honoring  the  profes- 
sion of  journalism,  who  will  not  find  in  the  announcement  of  the 
demise  of  Horace  Greeley  cause  for  the  profoundest  regret ;  there 
is  no  American  citizen  honoring  the  lives  of  those  who  have  made 
the  country  strong  and  great  who  can  regard  the  death  of  Horace 
Greeley  with  any  feeling  inseparable  from  sorrow. 

He  was  the  head  and  front  of  wise,  reliable,  honest  journalism ; 
he  was  the  first  of  living  journalists.  He  was  a  statesman,  a  j^atriot, 
and  a  humanitarian.  A  great  man ;  great  in  his  wisdom,  in  his 
honesty,  in  his  devotion  to  his  fellow-men. 

At  the  last,  an  unsuccessful  man.  Possibly.  But  who  can  say 
that  ?  The  ambition  of  his  last  days  was  honorable  to  him,  as  it 
was  honorable  to  his  country  that  a  man  who  had  fought  his  own 
way  from  abject  poverty  to  such  aspirations  as  his  had  been  born 
to  and  reared  by  it. 

There  was  no  dishonor  in  his  failing  to  reach  the  goal  for  which 
he  tried.  He  made  his  best  endeavor,  and  having  done  that  he 
could  have  waited  had  he  lived,  and  now  being  dead  his  memory 
can  wait  for  the  wise  future  to  decide  whether  he  was  right  or 
wrong  in  seeking  to  be  President. 

We  can  not  pi-aise  such  a  man.  What  he  has  done  puts  to  shame 
the  weakness  of  what  we  may  say.  In  his  "  Recollections  of  a  Busy 
Life,"  he  said  that  he  should  like,  after  he  was  gone  away  to  his 
rest,  to  have  it  remembered  that  he  established  The  Tribune.  That 
was  to  keep  his  memory  green  among  his  countrymen. 

He  might  also  have  said  to  keep  it  always  in  greater  reverence. 
Like  all  men  who  do  their  work  well,  no  matter  what  their  work 
may  be,  he  knew  that  he  had  done  this  Avell,  and  in  his  wise  sin- 
cerity he  asked  that  he  might  be  kept  in  recollection  by  it. 

To  appi-eciate  it  all,  we  must  recognize  the  service  to  country 
and  to  mankind  that  the  journal  he  founded  did  during  the  tliirty- 
one  busy  years  in  which  he  made  its  policy  and  controlled  its  affairs. 

There  was  no  reform  suggested  that  it  seemed  wise  to  him  to 


118  MEMORIAL   OF   HORACE   GREELEY. 

favor  that  lie  did  not  favor  in  the  cohimns  of  T]ie  Tribune  ;  there 
was  no  improvement  projected  for  the  mechanical  department  of  a 
great  newspajier  which  was  not  given  a  trial  in  the  mechanical 
department  of  The  T-ihune ;  there  Avas  no  public  enterprise,  no 
scheme  of  charity  or  Christianity  planned  for  the  good  of  mankind 
that  was  not  hel})ed  by  The  Tribune ;  there  was  no  question  of 
politics  or  statecraft  that  it  did  not  fairly  and  intelligently  discuss; 
and,  while  it  neglected  no  minor  issues  of  the  time  during  all  tlie 
period  of  its  existence,  it  fought  Slavery  with  such  power,  skill,  and 
honesty  that  Slavery  was  abolished,  and  by  no  means  more  surely 
than  by  the  indignant  protest  of  humanity  created  against  it  by 
llie  Tribune. 

For  thirty-one  years  he  was  The  Tribune.  He  stamped  upon  it 
indelibly  his  strong  personality  of  thought  and  feeling.  As  a  writer 
he  was  vigorous,  lucid,  and  convincing ;  not  always  polished,  yet 
always  forcible. 

His  editorial  utterances  bristled  with  thought  and  fact,  and,  how- 
ever they  may  have  erred  in  judgment,  they  still  commanded  atten- 
tion by  reason  of  their  author's  established  integrity  of  purpose. 

Pie  was  too  pure  a  statesman  to  be  a  good  politician,  too  frank  a 
man  to  command  the  sympathy  or  support  of  partisans.  He  placed 
great  reliance  upon  the  honesty  of  others,  and  was  often  deceived 
by  them.  But  unto  the  last  he  kept  his  simple  faith  in  the  truth 
of  mankind.  In  his  death  journalism  has  lost  its  ablest  rejiresenta- 
tive ;  the  country  an  honest,  wise  patriot ;  humanity  a  true  friend. 

ALWAYS    A    SINCERE    MAN. 

[From  the  PMladelpJiia  Ledger.\ 

The  intelligence  of  the  decease  of  Horace  Greeley  will  be  re- 
ceived with  deep  regret  throughout  the  entire  country,  for  his  fame 
was  commensurate  with  the  extent  of  the  American  Republic. 

It  was  not  even  limited  by  that,  as  he  Avas  widely  known  abroad 
as  one  of  the  ablest,  most  conspicuous,  and  influential  of  American 
journalists.  It  is  not  improbable,  now  that  he  has  been  a  candidate 
for  the  Presidency  of  the  United  States,  that  he  may  be  remembered 
mainly  in  some  remote  countries  in  that  relation ;  but  within  the 
limits  of  our  own  country  his  memory  Avill  be  chiefly  connected  with 
his  character  as  a  great  editor,  and  as  the  founder  of  a  newspaper 
which  he  made  at  one  time  a  i)0wer  within  the  lines  of  the  parties 
with  which  he  acted. 


VOICE   OF   THE   PULPIT  AND  THE  PEESS.  119 

Mr.  Greeley  was  truly  a  great  journalist.  As  a  writer  he  was 
remarkable  for  the  vigor  and  transceucleut  ability  with  which  he 
discussed  all  questions  that  he  made  the  subject  of  his  pen. 

In  everything  that  he  wrote  and  published  he  presented  his  pecu- 
liar ideas  and  turn  of  thought  with  such  clearness  and  cogency  as. 
to  have  the  most  convincing  power  with  those  of  the  same  general 
leanings,  and  to  make  their  aggressive  force  felt  by  his  adversaries. 

Although  he  has  been  represented  as  being  a  waverer  at  times, 
halting  unsteadily  between  two  opinions,  and  even  changing  front  at 
important  political  crises,  it  is  nevertheless  the  fact  that  he  was 
always  able  to  give  clear  and  forcible  reasons  for  his  course  on  these 
occasions,  and  that,  upon  nearly  all  other  occasions,  no  one  adhered 
more  steadily  to  what  he  regarded  as  the  cardinal  princij)les  of  his 
political  life. 

Mr.  Greeley,  in  his  private  relations,  was  one  of  the  most  amiable 
and  kindly-hearted  of  men.  His  closest  friends  were  warmly  at- 
tached to  him,  and  while  his  decease  will  be  almost  universally 
regretted  by  those  who  did  not  know  him  personally,  the  sorrow  of 
those  who  were  near  to  him  will  be  very  deep  indeed. 

THE    BEST   KXOWX    OF    AMEPaCANS. 

[From  the  Fireside  Companion.'] 

Before  these  lines  will  fall  under  the  eye  of  the  reader,  the  sad 
news  of  Mr.  Greeley's  death  will  have  traversed  the  circuit  of  the 
globe,  and  be  known,  not  only  to  his  own  countrymen,  but  to  the 
inhabitants  of  every  land  which  has  any  contact  or  communica- 
tion with  civilization.  It  was  a  common  saying  that  Mr.  Greeley  Avas 
the  best  known  man  in  America ;  it  would  be  hazarding  little  to 
assert  that  he  was  the  best  known  of  all  living  Americans  every- 
where. This  was  due,  not  to  any  charlatanry  or  effort  of  his  own 
to  foist  himself  upon  the  world's  attention,  but  to  great  talents,  pro- 
found sympathy  with  all  the  hopes  and  fears  and  struggles  of  his 
fellow-man,  and  unwearied  labors  to  promote  those  arts  and  habits 
by  which  national  welfare  and  individual  comfort  and  happiness  are 
increased. 

In  his  personal  history,  Mr.  Greeley  has  left  a  precious  legacy 
to  all  coming  generations.  Born  in  obscurity  and  poverty,  he  rose 
solely  by  virtuous  industry  and  economy.  Occupying  for  many 
years  an  exalted  position,  he  bore  himself  as  the  humblest,  and  no 
man,  however  poor  or  unknown,  was  ever  abashed  by  an  assumption 


120  MEMORIAL   OF  HORACE   GREELEY. 

in  Mr.  Greeley's  dress  or  demeanor.  His  generosity  was  proverbial, 
and  tlie  prudence  and  economy  of  his  own  personal  expenditure 
enabled  him  to  lend  a  helping  hand  to  many  whose  necessities  arose 
from  their  own  imprudence,  but  who  did  not  meet  with  a  refusal  on 
this  account.  Among  the  thousands  who  will  mourn  for  him,  there 
will  be  few  who  have  not  in  some  way  benefited  by  his  labors,  and 
his  friends  have  the  sweet  consolation  in  knowing  that  the  world  is 
truly  better  for  his  having  lived  in  it. 

A   LOVER    OF   HIS   FELLOW-ilEN". 
[From  the  Albany  Times.'] 

"We  can  not  add  one  word  to  the  already  written  history  of  Hor- 
ace Greeley.  It  is  known  to  every  reading  man  and  woman  in  the 
land.  His  eventful  career  calmly  closed  at  Pleasantville  on  Friday 
night  at  ten  minutes  before  seven  o'clock.  He  was  born  in  Amherst, 
New  Hampshire,  Feb.  3,  1811,  and  was,  therefore,  not  quite  sixty- 
two  years  old.  His  history  is  written  up  to  the  hour  of  his  death. 
He  was  a  man  of  integrity  and  unquestioned  ability.  In  these  he 
was  truly  great.  That  he  was  always  right  in  his  views  and  posi- 
tions can  not  be  assumed,  because  that  would  make  him  something 
more  than  human.  That  he  alwaj^s  sought  to  be  riglit  is  undoubt- 
edly true.  Added  to  his  intellectual  greatness  was  a  simplicity  of 
character  that  made  his  life  exemplary  and  commendable.  He  has 
marked  the  age  in  Avhich  he  lived.  For  forty  years  he  has  been  one 
of  the  most  intense  brain-workers  in  the  country.  He  has  lived  in  a 
world  of  active  thought  and  active  work.  He  has  written  much  in 
addition  to  his  labors  in  connection  with  the  great  newspaper  which 
he  founded,  and  Avhich  became  almost  inseparable  from  his  name. 
He  has  not  lived  wholly  for  himself  or  for  the  present,  but  for  his 
race  and  for  the  future,  and  we  are  pained  to  know  that  his  death 
will  cause  a  void  not  readily  to  be  filled.  Mr.  Greeley  was  a  lover 
of  country,  a  lover  of  liberty,  and,  above  all,  a  lover  of  his  fellow- 
men. 

It  was  his  active  brain  and  comprehensive  intellect  that  made 
the  Republican  party.  He  made  it  and  gave  it  victory ;  but  when 
he  conceived  that  its  leaders  were  \mtrue  to  the  cause  of  liberty, 
justice,  and  right,  in  which  he  had  sought  to  mold  and  sustain  that 
party,  he  turned  against  them  and  sought  to  keep  inviolate  the  faith 
that  was  in  him.  It  was  no  party  action  on  the  part  of  Mr.  Greelev. 
He  had  no  party  ambition  to  gratify.     It  was  a  conviction  of  duty 


VOICE   OF    THE   PULPIT  AND   THE    PRESS.  121 

whicli  he  could  not  put  off,  nor  would  not  if  he  could.  We  are  not 
to  stand  over  his  open  grave  and  discuss  whether  his  conceptions  of 
duty  were  right  or  wrong.  We  leave  that  for  history  to  decide. 
To  our  view  they  were  eminently  right,  to  the  views  of  others  they 
were  all  wrong ;  but  whether  right  or  wrong,  they  were  honestly 
entertained  by  Horace  Greeley,  and  no  human  influence  could  deter 
him  from  acting  in  obedience  to  their  demands. 

But  the  scene  has  now  closed.  The  long  years  of  party  conflict 
are  over,  and  all  the  bitterness  of  party  feeling  must  cease.  Ilis  has 
been  a  life  of  astonishing  activity  and  boldness  of  pui-pose.  That  he 
has  done  much  good,  no  one  can  or  will  deny.  That  he  has  sought 
to  be  the  benefactor  of  his  race — that  he  has  sought  to  make  men 
better  and  truer  in  their  lives  and  conduct,  admits  of  no  doubt.  If 
he  has  done  wrong,  let  that  be  interred  with  his  remains. 

A    GEEAT-HEARTED    MAIST. 

[From  the  Syracuse  Standa/rd.'] 

The  greatest  editor  America  has  produced  is  dead.  Horace 
Greeley  is  no  more.  Peaceful  was  his  end,  and  profound  will  be 
the  grief  of  his  countrymen.  The  asperities  of  the  recent  political 
contest  will  be  forgotten,  and  men  of  all  parties  will  hasten  to  do 
homage  to  the  memory  of  the  illustrious  departed. 

Since  journalism  has  been  elevated  to  the  dignity  of  a  profession, 
it  has  had  no  worthier  or  more  stalwart  representative  than  he  who 
for  thirty  years  controlled  the  columns  of  The  Tribune,  and  educated 
the  masses  into  habits  of  correct  thought  and  wise  action. 

There  have  been,  indeed,  more  versatile  and  enterprising  jour- 
nalists than  Mr.  Greeley  ;  there  have  been  men  of  more  classic 
culture,  and,  ^^erhaps,  of  more  varied  information. 

There  have  been  better  newspapers  than  The  Tribune;  but 
there  has  been  no  journal  which  has  wider  influence  than  it,  as  there 
has  been  no  editor  to  compare  with  Mr.  Greeley  in  sincerity  of  pur- 
pose and  directness  of  expression. 

A  wrong,  or  that  which  he  deemed  to  be  a  wrong,  he  pierced 
through  and  through  with  weapons  of  logic,  invective,  and  ridicule, 
until  it  became  a  thing  of  shreds  and  patches.  He  had  an  object 
in  everything  he  did. 

He  saw  the  weak  points  in  his  adversary's  case  and  exposed 
them,  with  nothing  of  remorse,  and,  pei'haps,  little  of  delicacy.  He 
thoroughly  believed  in  his  mission  as  a  teacher.  Clear-sighted,  sa- 
/*- 


122  MEMORIAL   OF  HORACE   GREELEY. 

gacious,  earnest,  he  saw  and  attacked  an  evil  before  tlic  majority  pf 
the  citizens  had  learned  that  tliere  was  aught  in  it  save  good. 

He  had  convictions,  and  he  uttered  them  as  fearlessly,  as  con- 
scientiously. Journalism  is  apt  to  destroy  convictions.  It  never 
had  this  effect  upon  Mr.  Greeley.  In  a  certain  sense,  he  was  a  one- 
sided man,  as  believing  that  his  side  was  the  right  side. 

He  comprehended,  in  order  that  he  might  the  clearer  argue,  all 
that  could  be  urged  against  his  views  of  public  policy  and  public 
justice;  but  tliis  comprehension  never  conquered  him;  it  but  nerved 
him  to  fortify  his  own  case. 

lie  wrested  from  an  enemy  all  his  fallacies,  and,  in  the  conscious- 
ness of  his  own  assured  strength,  held  them  up  to  public  ridicule. 
He  scorched  them  with  invective ;  he  crushed  them  with  sarcasm ; 
he  annihilated  them  with  facts. 

A  great  editor  is  not  alone  a  man  of  convictions,  of  courage,  and 
of  tenacity  of  will.  He  must  be  able  to  enunciate  those  convictions, 
to  vindicate  that  courage,  to  exemplify  that  tenacity  of  will  through 
terse  methods  of  expression. 

He  must  wield  the  pen  of  the  ready  writer.  This  Mr.  Greeley 
did.  No  purer  English  than  his  has  been  written  ;  epigrammatic 
when  necessary;  resolute  as  occasion  required,  ofteu  eloquent,  al- 
ways vigorous,  nervous,  emphatic. 

When  Mr.  Greeley  said  anything  the  people  knew  Avliat  he 
meant.  There  was  with  him  no  twisting  of  sentences,  no  burying 
of  ideas  beneath  flowers  of  rhetoric,  no  prevarications,  no  tautol- 
ogies, no  doubtful  construction  of  words.  Blunt  he  was,  but  never 
finical. 

Honest  thought  through  him  found  honest  modes  of  enunciation. 
He  never  excused  the  defects  of  systems,  and  rarely  apologized  for 
the  foibles  of  men. 

He  might  be  mistaken,  but  the  integrity  of  his  opinions  was 
never  seriously  questioned  by  any  American  until  within  tlie  last 
few  months,  when  he  was  subjected  to  a  storm  of  calumny  and 
abuse  which  hesitated  not  to  aflirm  the  insincerity  of  his  political 
faith. 

U])  to  the  liourwhen  he  became  a  candidate  for  high  civi<'  trust, 
the  country  trusted  him,  and  a  majority  of  his  fellow-citizens  im- 
plicitly followed  him;  for  he  was  both  pioneer  and  crusader. 

In  the  long-drawn  struggle  between  the  ))ro-slavery  and  anti- 
slavery  forces,  Mr.  Greeley  was  unquestionably  the  leader  of  the 


VOICE  OF  THE  PULPIT  AND   THE  PEESS.  123 

latter.  In  the  fore-front  of  the  battle,  his  phime  was  ever  waving  ; 
above  the  din  of  the  conflict  rose  his  clarion  voice  of  command. 

He  had  the  largest  hearing  of  any  man  in  the  land.  His  words, 
read  in  stately  and  refined  homes,  scattered  in  the  houses  of  the 
lowly,  devoured  in  the  cabins  on  the  frontier,  became  the  inspiration 
of  thousands.     They  aroused  and  concentrated  public  sentiment. 

If  the  curse  of  slavery  has  been  removed  from  the  Republic, 
thank  many  earnest  men  for  it,  but  thank,  chief  of  all,  Horace 
Greeley.  He  was  the  captain  of  the  army  which  vanquished  the 
demon.     He  was  our  St.  George  who  slew  the  dragon. 

Domestic  afflictions  had  unnerved  him  before  the  election.  Ten- 
derly watching  by  the  death-bed  of  his  wife,  he  refixsed  sleep,  and 
watched  unceasing  to  the  end.  Then  came  the  political  misfortune, 
involving  much  of  trial  and  something  of  mortification. 

Though  he  seemed  to  bear  up  bravely,  and  reassumed  his  chair 
in  The  Tribune  with  manly  philosoi^hy,  he  must  have  keenly  real- 
ized the  shadow  that  had  fallen  upon  his  hearthstone  and  the  blight 
that  had  fallen  upon  his  ambition. 

Over  his  shattered  hopes  we  would  di*aw  the  vail.  We  do  not 
desire  to  enumerate  his  faults  of  disposition  or  his  errors  of  judg- 
ment.    He  had  these  in  common  with  his  kind. 

We  but  enumerate  his  virtues,  for,  in  comparison  with  them,  his 
faults  were  but  as  spots  u^^on  the  sun.  A  great-hearted  man  is  gone ; 
the  labors  of  a  chivalric  spirit  are  ended.     A  nation  speaks  his  eu- 

A    GEEAT-SOULED    MAN. 

\From  the  Bochester  Union  and  Aclvertiser.l 
The  halcyon  days  of  the  nation  are  darkened  for  the  moment  by 
the  shade  of  gloom.  The  reverent  voice  of  autumnal  thanksgiving  is 
choked  by  the  sobbings  of  grief.  Death  has  sti'icken  down  one  of 
our  ablest  and  noblest  citizens.  It  is  as  if  the  simoom  had  singled 
out  the  mightiest  oak  of  the  forest  and  blighted  it  with  its  noxious 
breath.  In  the  midst  of  his  usefulness,  and  at  the  not  over-ripe  age 
of  sixty-one,  Horace  Greeley  has  suddenly  closed  his  earthly  career, 
A  deep  and  inexpressible  sadness  attaches  to  all  the  details  of  this 
event.  Mr.  Greeley  had  led  a  life  of  strict  rectitude  and  untiring 
industry.  His  indomitable  energy  had  been  devoted  almost  entirely 
to  the  amelioration  of  the  condition  of  his  fellow-men.  The  whole 
aim  of  his  life  had  been  to  make  the  country  more  prosperous  and 
mankind  better.     His  eminent  public  services  had,  long  before  his 


124  MEMORIAL   OF   IIOHACE   GREELEY. 

death,  become  matters  of  historical  record.  He  was  a  man  of  great 
soul— of  genial,  generous  heart.  In  every  species  of  social  and 
political  reform  his  had  been  a  leader's  part.  He  has  made  a  record 
that  will  outlive  his  country's  history,  while  the  insects  Avhieh  have 
stung  him  to  death  are  mere  ephemera.  The  story  of  Mr,  Greeley's 
life  and  public  services  is  familiar  to  every  school-boy,  and  need 
not  be  recited  here.  The  future  reader  of  history  will  pass  his  ec- 
centricities by  and  take  cognizance  only  of  his  great  deeds  and 
sterling  virtues. 

GREAT  AND  GENEROUS. 
{From  the  Elmira  Gazette^ 
The  great,  generous  heart  of  Horace  Greeley  is  stilled.  Done 
the  work — finished  the  course — ended  life's  long  and  busy  contest. 
When  the  record  of  the  year  fast  closing  is  made  by  the  historian, 
then  will  be  written  on  the  annals  of  1872,  teeming  with  memorable 
events,  the  deaths  of  two  men,  illustrious  in  the  self-same  avocation 
or  profession  in  life.  The  year  is  marked  by  the  deaths  of  James 
Gordon  Bennett  and  Horace  Greeley,  eminent  editors  and  builders 
of  two  most  successful  journals.  Associated  with  the  death  of  the 
latter  are  incidents  which  invest  his  departure  from  the  active 
scenes  of  life  with  a  peculiar  interest.  Conspicuous  for  nearly  half 
a  century,  by  the  course  of  events,  he  was  brought  within  the  last 
few  months  by  his  Presidential  candidacy  into  especial  pi'ominence. 
That  he  comported  himself  with  a  nobility  of  mind  and  spirit,  during 
that  exciting  period,  is  attested  by  the  jDraise  of  even  those  who 
opposed  him,  and  higher  still  he  rose  in  the  respect,  admiration,  and 
affection  even  of  that  great  portion  of  the  American  people  who 
believe  in  the  great  principles  he  rq:)rcsented  so  bravely  and  well. 
As  we  are  i^rouder  to-day  of  that  six  months'  fight  for  his  success  and 
the  supremacy  of  the  principles  at  stake,  so  our  heart  is  the  more 
oppressed  with  sorrow  now  that  the  chieftain  who  so  gallantly  car- 
ried forward  the  banner  sleeps  low  in  death. 

THE    FRIEND    OF    TUE    MILLION. 

[From  the  Utiea  Observer.'] 

After  an  unusually  severe  and  stormy  struggle  with  the  world  for 

nearly  sixty-two  years,  Horace  Greeley,  founder  of  The  Neio  York 

Trlbime,  one  of  the  few  giants  of  7\.nierican  history,  is  peaceably 

at  rest.     Tlic  announcement  of  his  death  will  come  to  the  millions  of 


VOICE   OF  THE   PULPIT   xiND   THE   PRESS.  125 

our  people  with  more  of  pain,  perhaps,  than  could  the  tidings  of  the 
loss  of  any  other  man  in  the  nation,  for  he  was  all  American,  a  thor- 
ouo-hly  representative  Republican  citizen,  a  pattern  of  the  possible 
product  of  free  institutions  and  self-culture  to  whom  we  could  all 
point  with  pride.  He  left  no  American  of  such  commanding  stature 
behind  him. 

Ml".  Greeley  will  be  missed  by  the  millions  because  he  has  been 
conspicuously  the  friend  of  the  millions.  Constantly  on  the  alert, 
armed  at  all  points,  and  almost  irresistible  in  strength,  he  looked 
forth  from  the  tower  of  his  mind,  seeking  opportunities  to  succor  the 
oppressed  and  distressed  of  all  colors,  races  and  creeds.  His  knightly 
humanity  will  be  embalmed  in  the  memory  of  men  when  many  a 
statesman  and  warrior,  now  regarded  as  the  exclusive  property  of 
fame,  are  forgotten. 

HIS   GREATEST  XESSOIT. 

[From  tlie  JJtica  Herald.'] 
The  busy  life  of  Horace  Greeley  has  ended  in  tragedy.  Disease 
made  a  plaything  of  his  iron  constitution.  His  strong  mind,  which 
never  before  yielded  one  inch  to  excitement  or  depression,  glided 
quickly  under  a  cloud  from  which  it  never  emerged.  The  unheralded 
death  is  made  the  more  terribly  solemn  and  significant  by  the  events 
which  foreran  and  precipitated  it.  A  great  people,  who  have  stood 
to  him  for  thirty  years  in  the  relation  of  pupU  to  instructor,  will  find 
itself  to-day  a  sorrowful,  sympathizing,  aghast,  and  thoughtful  com- 
munity of  mourners.  There  is  sorrow  at  their  own  great  loss. 
There  is  sympathy  for  bereaved  friends,  whose  numbers  are  nar- 
rowed within  the  pale  of  no  family  circle.  Mingled  with  and  almost 
overshadowing  these  feelings  are  those  others,  which  read  instinct- 
ively and  linerringly,  in  the  story  of  this  life  and  this  death,  the 
lesson  which  most  of  all  we  needed  as  a  people  to  learn — the  lesson 
which,  if  Horace  Greeley  shall  have  thoroughly  taught  it  to  us  in  his 
dying,  will  come  in  time  to  stand  as  the  greatest  of  the  many  great 
services  he  did  for  the  people  among  whom  and  for  whom  he  lived 
and  labored. 

A   KEPRESENTATIVE   AMEEICAK. 

[From  the  Buffalo  Courier.'] 
There  is  something  inexpressibly  sad  in  the  circumstances  attend- 
ing Mr.  Greeley's  death.     It  is  but  a  few  days  since  he  laid  his  wife 


126  MEMORIAL   OF   HORACE   GREELEY. 

in  her  grave ;  and  following  close  after  that  came  his  defeat  for  the 
Presidency. 

Mr.  Greeley  was  preeminently  a  reiDresentative  American.  His 
life  was  a  splendid  illustration  of  the  beneficence  of  our  institutions, 
and  of  the  generous  possibilities  which  they  scatter  in  the  pathway 
of  every  citizen.  Sprung  from  the  liumblest  walks  of  life,  and 
Avithout  any  adventitious  aids  to  success,  he  achieved  a  position 
second  to  none  in  the  land. 

"With  comparatively  few  of  the  graces  of  scholarship,  he  became 
famous  in  a  profession  which  embraces  all  the  departments  of  human 
learning,  and  lays  them  all  under  contribution.  In  doing  this  he 
relied  chiefly  upon  strong  logic,  and  a  vigorous  use  of  rugged 
English  to  express  rugged  ideas.  As  a  journalist,  Mr.  Greeley 
excelled  in  strength  rather  than  grace. 

His  style  was  Gothic  rather  than  Ionic,  and  his  character  was  in 
many  respects  like  it.  Of  course  we  can  not  undertake  a  direct  an- 
alysis of  such  a  character  now,  and  we  very  much  doubt  if  such  an 
analysis  be  needed  at  all.  The  American  people  probably  knew  Mr. 
Greeley  better  than  any  public  man  of  the  time. 

His  name,  his  ideas,  and  even  his  eccentricities,  have  become 
familiar  through  nearly  half  a  century  of  daily  labor  in  their  behalf; 
and  now  that  he  has  so  suddenly  passed  away,  it  is  the  most  affecting 
tribute  which  can  be  paid  to  his  memory  to  say  of  him — what  can 
be  truly  said — that  the  great  body  of  the  people  feel  that  they  have 
lost  a  friend. 

"  I    KNOW    THAT   MT    REDEEMER    LIVETH." 

[From  the  Troy  Press.'] 

On  Christmas  night  of  1871  the  writer  of  this  article  sat  beside 
Horace  Greeley  at  Steinway  Hall,  New  York  City,  where  was  being 
given  Handel's  great  oratorio  of  "  The  Mcssiali."  During  the  major 
part  of  the  performance  he  sat  ai)parently  lost  in  thought,  if  not  in 
a  doze,  and  seemingly  oblivious  to  all  that  was  going  on. 

But  when  Miss  Kellogg  appeared  and  sang  the  great  soprano 
solo,  "I  know  that  my  Redeemer  livcth,"  he  raised  up,  his  foce  was 
suftused  with  joy,  his  bright  eye  was  dimmed  with  a  tear,  and  he 
listened  with  that  steady  and  intense  earnestness  so  peculiar  to 
him  when  interested. 

When  it  was  finished  no  hands  more  loudly  applauded  than  his, 
no  face  beamed  forth  such  great  satisfaction,  and  he  murmured  to 


VOICE   OF   THE  PULPIT   Al^D   THE   PKESS.  127 

himself  those  grandest  of  all  the  words  of  the  world,  "  I  know  that 
mv  Redeemer  liveth."  Then  again  came  the  absent,  preoccupied 
look,  nor  did  it  change  until  Miss  Sterling  sang  the  contralto  recita- 
tive, "Then  shall  come  to  pass  that  which  is  written  :  Death  shall  be 
swallowed  up  in  victory,"  when  the  same  joyous  look  of  satisfaction 
lio-hted  up  the  face  no  one  could  look  upon  and  not  love. 

A  few  days  ago  he  turned  wearily  on  his  bed  of  pain,  and  the  old 
light  came  back  as  he  mattered,  "  I  know  that  my  Redeemer  liveth  ;" 
a  few  hours  more,  and  "It  is  done."  Death  was  swallowed  up  in 
victory  —  the  victory  of  a  lifetime,  lighting  for  the  right  over 
wrong  ;  for  truth  over  error ;  for  reason  over  prejudice ;  for  peace 
and  love  over  war  and  hate — the  victory  of  a  well-spent  life,  enti- 
tling a  soul  to  life  eternal  after  death.  This  is  his  victory,  and  he 
needs  no  eulogy  or  monument.  The  heart-beat  of  the  nation  is  the 
one,  the  imprint  of  our  footsteps  on  the  face  of  time  the  other — more 
lasting:  than  marble,  more  endurino-  than  brass. 

HE    HAS    JUST    BEGUN    TO    LIVE. 

[From  the  Spnngfield  Republican.'] 

"  The  country  is  gone.  The  Tribune  is  gone,  and  I  am  gone  ! " 
If  we  may  credit  a  New  York  paper,  these  were  the  last  rational 
Avords  of  Horace  Greeley. 

Perhaps  he  really  uttered  them;  pei-haps  he  did  not.  As  a 
nile,  the  last  words  of  distinguished  men  belong  in  the  Apocrypha. 
There  are  exceptions,  however,  and  we  are  inclined  to  put  this 
down  as  one  of  them.  Both  sentiment  and  language  are  so  natural 
that  we  have  little  difficulty  in  accepting  them  as  authentic.  Mr. 
Greeley,  like  many  other  men  of  the  same  temperament,  was  lack- 
ing in  the  equal  mind.  Ardent  and  sanguine  in  whatever  he  under- 
took, he  was  ever  prone  to  magnify  a  reverse  into  a  rout.  He  was 
eminently  susceptible  to  moral  panics ;  the  first  frost  of  ill-fortune 
set  him  shivering;  the  first  outset  of  calamity  was  apt  to  take  liim 
oft'  his  feet.  After  a  while  he  pricked  himself  up  again,  and  re- 
newed the  fight  as  hopefully  as  ever.  Doubtless  he  would  have 
done  so  in  this  instance  if  disappointment  had  not  been  reinforced 
by  disease ;  if  the  soul  had  had  the  rugged,  indomitable  physique 
of  former  years  to  fall  back  upon.  Yet  the  disappointment,  by 
itself,  would  have  been  very  hard  to  bear.  Mr,  Greeley  loved  his 
country  truly  and  deeply.  He  was  American  through  and  through. 
The  Tribune  was  his  first-born  child,  and  dear  to  him  as  the  applo 


128  MEMORIAL   OF   IIOllACE   GKEELEY. 

of  his  eye.  lie  Avas  ambitious  for  himself  also;  his  nature  craved 
appreciation;  knowing  that  he  deserved  Avell  of  his  fellow-citizens, 
that  he  had  done  them  good  service,  that  it  was  in  him  to  do  greater 
thin^Ts  yet  if  only  the  chance  were  offered,  he  was  restless  and 
uneasy  for  some  conspicuous  mark  of  their  confidence,  lie  desired 
recognition  for  the  past  and  opportunity  for  the  future.  In  his 
nomination  for  the  Presidency  he  saw  both.  His  sanguine  tempera- 
ment asserted  itself;  he  discounted  success  and  reveled  in  dreams 
of  an  Administration  that  was  to  be  made  memorable  for  justice, 
for  honesty,  for  kindly  feeling,  for  common-sense  statesmanship,  for 
abuses  corrected,  for  benefits  conferred  upon  a  tranquilized  and 
reunited  nation.  The  waking-up  would  have  been  very  bitter  at 
the  best.  Add  shattered  nerves  to  shattered  hopes,  and  what  more 
natural  than  that  the  great  editor,  sick  unto  death,  should  cry  out 
that  everything  is  gone — the  country,  Tlte  Tribune,  himself? 

But  God  forbid  that  we  should  mistake  this  passionate  cry, 
wrung  from  a  worn-out  and  disappointed  man  lying  upon  his  death- 
bed, for  a  true  statement  of  the  fact.  ^Ye  can  see  what  those  film- 
ing eyes  could  not.  We  know  that  nothing  is  gone.  The  country? 
Its  forehead  is  still  glistering  with  the  dews  of  its  mighty  youth. 
It  has  survived  the  Washingtons  and  Jeffersons  and  Franklins;  it 
will  survive  the  statesmen  and  patriots  upon  whom  in  our  genera- 
tion their  mantles  have  fallen.  It  has  survived  the  Burrs  and 
Yauceys  and  Slidclls;  it  will  survive  the  Camerons  and  Mortons 
and  Butlers. 

Tlie  Tribune  ?  Mr.  Greeley's  death  is  undoubtedly  a  severe 
blow  to  it.  But  no  one  need  fear  or  hope  that  the  blow  will  prove 
fatal.  A  great  newspaper  is  not  killed  so  easily.  It  has  a  wondei-ful 
vitality.  It  acquires  an  individuality,  a  life  of  its  own  quite  apart 
from  and  independent  of  that  of  its  creator.  It  develops  distinctive 
traits ;  it  accumulates  traditions ;  it  gathers  around  it  a  clientage 
of  readers ;  it  becomes  the  owner  of  that  most  intangible  but  most 
valuable  of  all  properties — a  "  good  will."  The  death  of  Mr.  Greeley 
will  no  more  kill  TJie  Tribune  than  that  of  Mr.  Raymond  did  the 
Times,  or  that  of  Mr.  Bennett  did  the  Ilerahl.  The  money  interests 
at  stake  are  of  themselves  an  ample  guarantee  that  so  valuable  a 
property  will  not  be  allowed  to  run  down  for  the  want  of  proper 
care  and  management.  Then,  Avith  all  its  foibles  and  mistakes.  The 
Tribune  represents,  and  is  generally  recognized  as  representing,  the 
best  elements  in  our  national  character  and  life — the  moral  earnest- 


TOICE   OF   THE   TULPIT  A^T)   THE   PRESS.  129 

ncss,  the  advancctl  tbouglit,  the  instinct  of  j^rogress,  the  openness 
to  new  ideas,  the  propaganda  of  social  and  political  reform.  It  is 
this  that  has  made  it  the  greatest  of  American  newspapers.  Let  it 
preserve  the  character  stamped  upon  it  by  its  dead  founder,  let  it 
be  true  to  the  traditions  he  has  bequeathed  to  it,  and  the  best 
writers  in  the  country  will  be  attracted  to  it  by  the  law  of  moral 
gravitation.  The  late  Henry  J.  Raymond  once  complained  to  a 
radical  friend  of  the  trouble  he  had  in  finding  men  who  united  con- 
servatism with  an  ability  to  write  good  leaders.  "  All  the  clever 
felloAvs,"  he  said,  "  are  on  your  side."  He  hit  the  nail  on  the  head, 
too.  The  clever  fellows,  the  men  of  brains  and  earnestness  and 
ambition,  are  alwaj^s  and  everywhere  on  the  side  of  progress.  We 
expect  presently  to  see  T7ie  Tribune  a  better  newspaper  than  Mr. 
Greeley  ever  made  it,  or  could  have  made  it.  The  times  demand  a 
new  journalism,  differing  in  several  important  respects  from  the  old. 
As  a  personal,  partisan  journalist,  he  does  not  leave  his  equal  behind 
him.  He  constantly  put  himself  into  his  paper;  he  could  not  help 
it.  Old  Tribune  readers  and  his  brother  journalists  everywhere 
will  miss  him  sadly.  But  after  a  little  we  shall  look  to  see  the 
paper  thrive  all  the  better  for  the  removal  of  this  overshadowing 
personality. 

*  *  *  *  Horace  Greeley?  He  is  only  beginning  to  live. 
Every  year  now  will  add  to  his  power ;  will  round  and  heap  the 
measure  of  his  fame.  The  mistakes  which  marred  his  work  are 
ali-eady  half  forgotten  ;  the  work  itself  remains,  and  will  remain 
forever — an  indefeasible  possession,  an  imperishable  monument. 

So,  too,  the  foibles,  the  weaknesses,  the  pettinesses  which  ob- 
scured his  character  scale  off  now  and  drop  out  of  sight.  The  man 
himself  is  coming  into  view  at  last — the  real  Horace  Greeley,  with 
his  great  active  brain  and  tender  heart,  his  gj-and  hatred  of  Avrong 
and  charity  for  the  wrong-doer,  his  restless  benevolence,  and  his 
warm  human  interest  in  everything  appertaining  to  humanity.  As 
the  years  pass  he  will  loom  up  taller  and  taller.  He  did  not  need 
the  Presidency  for  a  pedestal,  though  he  thought  he  did.  That 
was  his  mistake.  The  office  might  have  belittled  him  ;  it  could  not 
have  added  a  cubit  to  his  stature  in  the  remembrance  of  his  coun- 
trymen or  in  the  history  of  his  country.  It  is  pleasant  now  to  re- 
member that  his  last  words  to  us,  while  yet  in  health  of  body  and 
mind,  were  of  forgiveness  and  love.  It  is  pleasant  to  believe  that 
by  that  brighter  light  which  now  shines  upon  him  he  has  already 

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130  ME^rORIAL   OF  nORACE   GREELEY. 

discovered  bow  sadly  be  misjudged  in  supposing  anytbing  was 
gone,  or  lost,  or  destroyed — tbat  be  already  sees  of  tbe  travail  of 
his  soul  and  is  satisfied. 

"  His  ashes  in  a  peaceful  urn  shall  rest. 
His  name  a  jrreat  example  stands,  to  show 
How  strangely  high  endeavors  may  be  blest." 


A    GOOD    MAN"    AND    A   TRUE    PATRIOT. 

\^Ffom  the  Hartford  Times.l 

Mr,  Greeley  may  not  bave  been  tbe  greatest,  but  be  was  un- 
deniably the  most  remarkable  man  in  tbe  United  States.  Nor  is  it 
easy  to  designate  any  survivor  who  is  bis  superior,  on  tbe  whole,  in 
intellectual  ability.  His  character  was  a  very  peculiar  one.  To  a 
singularly  transparent  sincerity  and  simplicity  of  bis  nature,  be 
added  a  native  shrewdness,  in  many  things,  which  was  scarcely  less 
remarkable.  Generous  to  a  fault,  he  would  share  his  last  dollar  with 
tbe  seedy-looking  adventurer  who  intruded  upon  bis  privacy  and  bis 
busy  work  to  solicit  pecuniary  aid ;  and  tbe  next  moment  he  might 
make  "  a  blue  streak "  with  tbe  vitriolic  and  not  over-particular 
emphasis  of  bis  disapproval  of  some  blunder,  or  oversight  of  tbe  print- 
ers or  office  attaches.  His  organ  of  v/bat  tbe  phrenologists  would 
call  "  perfectiveness " — the  requirement  of  neatness,  order,  and  a 
symmetrical  and  harmonious  relation  of  the  various  jiarts  of  a  piece 
of  work — must  have  been,  incredible  as  tbe  statement  may  appear 
to  those  who  judge  him  by  the  chronic  disarray  of  bis  own  gar- 
ments, a  marked  and  distinctive  element  in  his  strange  and  eccentric 
character.  This  desire  for  perfection,  never  to  be  gratiiied  in  any 
mortal  work,  was  conspicuously  manifested  by  Mr.  Greeley  through- 
out bis  busy  life,  in  two  things — and  both  were  part  of  tbe  great 
newspaper  with  which  bis  name  is  inseparably  associated.  One  was 
an  impulse  to  infuse  his  own  written  articles,  even  the  plainest, 
coarsest,  and  most  brawny  of  them,  with  a  certain  governing  law 
and  spirit  of  festhetic  correctness  and  symmetry;  and  the  other  was 
to  make  Tfie  Tribune  tbe  neatest  and  most  symmetrically  arranged 
sheet,  in  the  manner  of  its  mechanical  arrangements,  of  any  ])aper 
in  the  land.  In  both  points  be  succeeded.  Even  his  more  colloquial 
writings  are  admirable  specimens  of  terse  English,  developing  A\hat 
we  may  call  the  most  distinctive  American  spirit;  and  The  Tribune's 
orderly  and  symmetrical  arrangement  of  its  various  departments  is 


TOICE   OF  THE   PULPIT  AND   THE  PKESS  131 

one  of  the  features  iu  whioli  Greeley  has  stamped  his  own  impress 
upon  that  journal. 

We  do  not  care  now  to  dissect  or  discuss  Horace  Greeley  as  a 
character,  or  even  as  a  power  in  American  politics.  He  wielded  as 
wide  and  strong  an  influence  as  any  man  in  the  country.  And  this, 
too,  in  the  face  of  his  erratic  championship  of  strange  and  unpopular 
ideas.  He  was  a  good  maii  and  a  patriot  at  heart,  and  he  was  the 
most  unselfish  of  men.  We  have  found  him  a  vigorous  foeman, 
w^hose  blows  were  not  to  be  despised.  In  the  newer  phase  of  our 
political  affairs  we  have  recognized  him  as  an  honest  man  and  a 
patriot.  He  has  beea  shamefully  maligned,  but  he  will  be  prized 
now  that  he  is  gone;  and  he  will  have  his  wish — his  monument  will 
bear  this  inscription : 

Horace    Greeley, 
Founder  of  The  New  York  TREBinsrE. 

A    XATIOX    HIS    MOURNER. 

\^From  tlie  Washington  Chronicle.'] 
The  enmities  of  party  ai'e  buried  out  of  sight ;  its  storm  of  pas- 
sion is  hushed.  Republican,  Liberal,  and  Democrat  alike,  remember 
only  that  the  great  journalist,  whose  name  is  so  closely  identified 
with  the  country,  and  whose  journal  is  known  wherever  the  nation 
is  known,  is  dead.  Thus  suddenly  and  unexpectedly  to  the  country 
closes  the  life  of  one  of  the  most  industrious  and  untiring  of  men. 
The  nation  would  not  make  him  President,  but  it  will  attend  as  a 
mourner  at  his  grave.  It  did  not  see  its  interest  iu  gratifying  his 
darling  ambition,  but  it  is  ready  to  believe  that  he  meant  well  for 
the  country  when  he  consented  to  place  himself  in  a  position  that 
his  old  friends  believed  fraught  with  a  peril  not  apparent  to  him. 
Of  the  illustrious  trio  who  have  figured  so  largely  in  the  political 
history  of  Xew  York  and  the  nation,  two  have  passed  away  within 
a  very  short  interval.  The  third  (Mr.  Weed),  forgetting  all  the 
bitterness  of  an  alienation  that  has  continued  for  a  few  years, 
hastened  to  the  death-bed  of  his  old  friend  to  tell  him  that  there 
was  nothing  but  love  in  the  heart  of  the  living  toward  the  dying. 
With  heavy  heart  we  turn  away  from  the  stiffening  form  to  meet  as 
"we  may  the  duties  that  are  imposed. 

HIS    PLACE    SECURE    OX   THE    ROLLS    OF    FAME. 

[From  tJie  Baltimore  American.'] 
If  the  lessons  of  an  untiring  industry,  of  an  honorable  ambition, 


132  MEMORIAL   OF   IIOKACE   GREELEY. 

of  a  brain  that  never  ceased  to  plan,  and  a  liand  that  was  never 
stayed  from  executing  until  the  forerunner  of  death  palsied  their 
activity,  are  worth  anything  to  men  who  dream  of  success  in  life 
and  reward  in  heaven,  there  will  be  few  who  will  not  pause  this  day 
to  study  the  story  of  the  existence  that  has  vanished  from  among  us, 
and  to  sorrow  that  it  is  ended  on  earth.  There  was  not  an  Ameri- 
can boy  or  girl  who  had  stepped  over  the  threshold  of  the  primary 
school  that  had  not  heard  of  Horace  Greeley.     There  was  not  a 

youth 

"  Standing  with  reluctant  feet, 
"Where  the  brook  and  river  meet," 

and  cherishing  noble  longings  for  a  brave  and  righteous  voyage 
down  the  current  of  life,  witli  the  prizes  of  labor  and  honor  beckon- 
ing him  onward,  who  had  not  read  the  history  of  those  years  that 
were  begun  in  wearisome  toil  on  the  ungrateful  fields  of  New 
IlaTiipshire,  and  ended  in  the  possession  of  the  power  of  guiding, 
and  largely  heli)ing  to  control,  a  vast  public  influence.  It  has  been 
said  that  Mr.  Greeley  was  the  best  known  man  in  America.  The 
fact  is  both  a  testimony  to  his  substantial  qualities  of  greatness, 
which  created  the  admiration  and  respect  of  his  country,  and  to 
those  peculiar  mental  characteristics  which  gave  him  a  reputation  for 
eccentricity,  and  inspired  that  curiosity  which  greedily  swallowed  all 
the  details  of  his  life. 

As  the  chief  exponent  of  that  journalism  which  seeks  to  make 
the  newspaper  a  safe  guide  and  director  of  opinion  on  political, 
moral,  and  social  tojjics,  Mr.  Greeley  holds  a  secure  place  on  the 
rolls  of  fame.  Every  man  of  average  intellect  can  comprehend  the 
inherent  power,  resolution,  and  industry  required  to  build  up  The 
Tribune.  While  that  lasts  Mr.  Greeley  has  a  more  woi'thy  and 
enduring  monument  than  any  that  might  be  wrought  in  marble  or 
in  bronze.  It  is  the  living  and  proud  testimonial  of  his  life.  In 
every  line  that  it  sends  forth  to  the  world,  in  the  click  of  each  type 
that  falls  into  its  printer's  hands,  in  each  revolution  of  its  presses, 
there  speaks  the  voice  that  preserves  his  memory  green  and  pre- 
cious. He  created  and  wielded  a  mighty  power,  in  the  exercise  of 
which  he  stood  fully  in  the  fierce  light  of  criticism  and  controversy. 
There  was  not  an  atom  of  moral  cowardice  in  his  body.  As  an 
editor,  who  never  became  disheartened  when  some  good  end  was  to 
be  served  through  his  instrumentality,  he  invited  attack  and  re- 
turned its  shafts  with  an  inexhaustible  vigor.     No  man  could  crowd 


VOICE   OF   THE  PULPIT   AISTD   THE  PRESS.  133 

more  into  life  than  he  did.  Rest  was  almost  unknown  to  him.  His 
active  mind  spurred  him  at  a  race-horse  speed  through  life,  and  gave 
him  no  respite.  The  teeming  brain,  the  busy  fancies,  and  the  toiling 
hands  are  all  alike  laid  to  rest  now,  and  bending  reverently  above 
his  grave,  we  can  pluck  from  it  the  deathless  flowers  of  lessons  of 
industry,  honesty,  and  energy  that  shall  bloom  forever,  and  bo 
fragrant  to  the  multitudes  who  shall  take  example  from  him. 

ONE    OF    HIS    country's    GREAT    MEN. 

[From  the  Providence  Journal.'] 

The  tidings  of  Mr,  Greeley's  unexpected  death  have  fallen  upon 
the  country  with  startling  suddenness,  and  have  everywhere  awak- 
ened a  feeling  of  public  loss.  He  had  long  been  conspicuous  as  a 
journalist,  a  i^olitician,  and  reformer,  and  had  wielded  a  j^ower  over 
public  opinion  equaled  by  that  of  few  other  men  of  his  time. 

But  in  addition  to  this,  and  in  addition  to  the  very  wide  extent 
to  which  the  American  people  had  become  familiar  with  his  charac- 
ter, his  opinions  and  habits  of  life,  he  had  just  been  standing  before 
them  as  a  candidate  for  the  highest  office  of  the  Republic. 

Every  citizen,  since  the  present  month  began,  has  been  called  to 
give  a  judgment  for  or  against  his  election  to  the  Presidency,  and 
now  to  learn  that  he  has  so  soon  been  cut  down  by  death,  makes  a 
deej)  impression  on  every  mind.  Whether  accepted  or  rejected  as  a 
candidate,  he  stood  among  those  who,  by  common  consent,  have 
been  pronounced  the  gi'eat  men  of  the  country. 

In  the  midst  of  the  excitement  attending  the  Presidential  elec- 
tion, though  probably  not  till  his  defeat  was  well-nigh  certain,  it  be- 
came plain  that  his  wife  would  never  rise  from  her  sick-bed, 

Mr,  Greeley  immediately  betook  himself  to  her  side,  and  there 
devoted  liis  entire  attention,  by  night  and  by  day,  to  her  care  and 
comfort  till  the  melancholy  end  came.  Her  death  and  his  own  over- 
whelming political  defeat  came  nearly  together.  They  found  him 
with  strength  exhausted,  with  digestion  imjDaired,  and  Avith  his 
nervous  system  thoroughly  disordered. 

It  was  confidently  hoped  that  he  would  soon  rally  and  be  re- 
stored to  his  accustomed  strength.  But  it  has  been  otherwise  or- 
dained, and  he  has  passed  from  among  the  living  almost  at  the  very 
moment  when  his  name  is  upon  all  lips,  and  his  remarkable  career  is 
especially  familiar  to  all  minds. 

The  circumstances  in  which  his  deatli  has  taken  place  make  it  an 


134  MEXOEIAL   OF   HORACE   GREFLEY. 

event  of  world-wide  interest,  while  the  fact  that  it  was  caused  by  the 
sacrifices  which  domestic  affection  prompted  him  to  make,  will  awak- 
en a  respect  for  the  man  and  the  husband  such  as  the  journalist  and 
the  politician  alone  could  not  have  commanded. 

INTENSELY    A    REPUBLICAN. 

{From  the  Providence  PreKs.'] 

The  decease  of  such  a  man  is  a  national  calamity.  Identified  as 
he  has  been  with  everything  ennobling  and  progressive  for  the 
country ;  bold  and  courageous  to  strike  the  wrong  with  the  strength 
of  a  Hercules;  a  true  patriot;  an  able  journalist;  a  warm-hearted 
philanthropist ;  a  tender  and  sincere  friend  and  benefactor  of  the 
poor,  his  death  brings  sadness  to  all,  and  kindles  in  every  honor- 
able heart  a  regret  that  the  world  is  called  to  suffer  such  a  loss.  The 
fiat  was  inexorable ;  the  best,  the  strongest,  and  those  most  needed 
and  most  endeared  must  bow  to  the  decree  of  displacement,  and  ac- 
cept this  great  condition  of  existence. 

His  life,  so  eventful,  was  purely  an  American  life,  and  only  the 
genius  of  our  institutions  could  have  brought  it  to  such  a  develoi> 
ment.  He  was  intensely  a  republican  after  the  American  model. 
To  him  the  purity,  the  simplicity,  the  beneficence  of  our  institutions 
were  vital  to  the  prosperity  of  the  country.  While  he  builded  all 
upon  the  citizen'  and  his  divine  endowment  of  inalienable  rights,  he, 
nevertheless,  claimed  for  the  State  all  of  poAver  requisite  to  make 
sacred  the  law,  demanding  only  equal  rights,  equal  privileges,  and 
equal  responsiblities  for  all.  Politically,  his  whole  life  confers  upon 
him  the  just  title  of  a  Democratic  Republican.  He  beheved  in  a 
State  where  the  citizen  retained  the  largest  liberty,  and  granted  the 
same  to  every  other  citizen. 

In  the  advocacy  and  defense  of  these  views  he  became  one  of  the 
ablest  journalists,  if  not  the  ablest,  in  this  country.  Tlie  Tribune  is 
his  moniiment — a  noble  and  appropriate  one.  From  its  columns  he 
has  spoken  to  the  American  people  and  to  the  civilized  world,  and 
his  words  have  carried  conviction  to  the  public  mind.  He  has  been 
as  honest,  brave,  and  truthful  to  himself  and  his  principles,  through 
those  columns,  as  he  has  been  fair,'  just,  and  able.  His  ripe  experi- 
ence in  journalism  was  based  upon  a  princely  mental  endowment, 
and  a  great  and  varied  culture.  He  had  his  vagaries,  his  Utopias, 
and  who,  great  or  small  in  the  world's  estimation,  has  not  ? — and  yet 
they  were  all  on  the  better,  the  progressive  plane,  and  looked  to  the 


VOICE   OF  THE   PULPIT  AI^D   THE   PEE3S.  135 

improvement  of  the  condition  of  the  race  and  the  world.  His  life 
has  been  one  of  incessant  toil,  for,  blessed  with  an  unusually  hardy- 
constitution,  he  has  taxed  its  powers  to  an  extent  which  would  have 
brought  most  of  his  fellows  to  an  earlier  grave. 

BEST   LOVED    OF    AMEEICAXS. 

{Ftwn  the  LouisviUe  Courier- Journal.'] 

Notwithstanding  the  many  copious  bulletins  which  have  come 
from  Mr.  Greeley's  bedside  the  last  few  days,  the  country  will  find 
itself  ill  prepared  to  read  the  tidings  of  his  death,  which  we  pub- 
lish this  morning.  This  is  one  of  the  instances  where  the  heart  feels 
most  when  the  pen  moves  not ;  for  of  Horace  Greeley  it  may  be 
truly  said  that  silence  is  most  eloquent. 

He  is  dead,  and  what  remains  to  be  said  of  him?  That  he  was  a 
man  of  extraordinary  mental  capacity,  that  he  was  a  man  of  extra- 
ordinary emotional  activity,  that  in  every  relation  of  life  he  excelled, 
is  known  to  all  men.  He  had  a  nature  abundant  to  overflowing  in 
all  the  forms  and  aspects  of  human  kindness. 

He  was  large-hearted  and  sincere — a  kind  man.  As  a  journal- 
ist, as  a  book-maker,  as  a  lecturer,  as  a  writer,  as  a  speaker,  he  was 
unwearying  and  diligent.  His  life  was  given  to  useful  industry,  and 
his  death  will  be  regarded  as  in  some  sort  a  personal  bereavement 
by  every  American  citizen,  for  in  spite  of  the  result  of  the  late 
election  no  man  in  the  countiy  was  better  loved. 

Throughout  his  careei',  Mr.  Greeley  was  before  the  public  every 
day  of  his  life.  He  was  more  widely  and  universally  known  than 
any  American  of  his  time.  He  will  certainly  be  as  universally  la- 
mented as  any  one  of  the  great  men  who  have  preceded  him. 

Nor  will  this  spontaneous  sense  of  public  regret  be  confined  to 
any  quarter  of  the  country.  It  -will  be  as  general  and  heartfelt  in 
the  South  as  in  the  North. 

THE    NOBLEST   AMERICAN. 

[From  the  Cincinnati  Enquirer.'] 

Through  all  the  length  and  breadth  of  the  land  the  intelligence 
which  our  columns  contain  this  morning  will  carry  sorrow  and  tear- 
ftil  regret.     Horace  Greeley  is  dead. 

The  hope  that  his  active  mind  and  muscular  body  would  suc- 
cessfully combat  the  combined  attack  of  disease  and  sorrow — though 
indulged  by  all  who  knew  that  the  man  whom  all  the  world  respected 
was  in  extremis — was  without  even  a  shadow. 


136  MEMOEIAL  OF  HORACE  GEEELEY. 

Of  all  the  deaths  that  have  come  upon  the  country  this  is  inex- 
pressibly the  saddest.  None  of  the  elements  which  beget  universal 
sympathy  are  lacking.  It  is  not  within  the  power  of  one  man,  nor 
the  limits  of  any  one  journal,  to  record,  with  justice  and  exacti- 
tude the  merits  of  the  great  man  whose  life  was  yesterday  extin- 
guished. 

For  nearly  forty  j^ears  he  was  a  part  of  the  Republic  Avhich  we 
honor  to-day,  and  to  his  vigorous  mind  and  active  words  the  people 
owe  more  than  they  will  ever  recognize,  much  less  pay. 

A  plebeian  by  birth,  he  lifted  himself  through  his  own  exertions 
to  a  position  greater  than  that  of  President,  and  in  his  industry, 
morality,  progressive  spirit,  and  comprehensive  views,  he  was, 
without  doubt,  the  noblest  type  of  an  American  citizen.  His  life- 
work  will  go  down  to  posterity,  and  in  posterity's  keeping  it  will 
be  honored. 

Politically  we  have  been  at  variance  with  Horace  Greeley 
throughout  the  greater  portion  of  our  existence  as  a  public  journal, 
but  his  genius  we  ever  admired,  his  integrity  we  ever  indorsed,  and 
we  honor  him  and  his  memoiy  for  his  humanity. 

As  a  journalist,  philosopher,  statesman,  and  philanthropist,  he 
was  worthy  of  all  honor  and  respect,  and  the  roll  which  is  set  apart 
in  the  country's  fame  for  the  preservation  of  the  names  of  deserving 
men  will  be  all  the  brighter  for  the  addition  of  his. 

He  may  have  been  a  man  of  varied  opinions ;  his  variety  of 
opinions  may  have  assumed  the  shape  and  volatility  of  vagaries  ;  he 
may  have  made  many  mistakes ;  but  his  great  heart  was  always 
right,  and  his  best  efforts  were  always  directed  to  the  advancement 
or  amelioration  of  the  human  race. 

His  life  was  spent  in  turmoil  and  political  strife,  and  it  ended 
in  sorrow,  but  his  last  pages  were  brightest,  and  his  last  works 
better  than  his  first. 

It  was  something  to  have  built  a  Tribune.,  but  the  man  who 
was  the  first  of  a  conquering  people  to  break  down  the  barriers  of 
hate  which  years  of  hostility  and  bloodshed  and  bitterness  had 
raised ;  who  was  the  first  to  extend  his  hand  and  the  first  to  plead 
for  forgiveness  and  reconciliation,  wove  for  himself  a  chaplet  which 
can  never  wither. 

The  people  who  had  once  hated  him  became  his  friends,  and 
the  men  whom  he  had  carried  to  honor  hurried  him  to  his  grave. 

He  survived  the  bitter  memories  of  the  great  struggle  which  ho 


VOICE   OF   THE  PULPIT  AND   THE  PEESS.  137 

aided  so  much  to  inaugurate,  and,  as  in  that  day  when  he  perceived 
his  great  duty,  with  all  the  sincerity,  honesty,  and  earnestness  of  his 
nature,  he  devoted  himself  to  a  restoration  of  fraternal  feeling  among 
brethren  who  are  decreed  one  nationality. 

It  has  been  said  that  Mr.  Greeley  was  an  ambitious  man,  and 
that  he  connived  to  secure  for  himself  the  Presidency.  Without 
that  true  and  ennobling  ambition  which  is  the  adjunct  of  worthy 
manhood,  he  could  never  have  been  Horace  Greeley;  but  that  he 
obtained  the  nomination  of  the  Liberal  party  through  adventitious 
means  is  an  undoubted  slander. 

His  friends  and  admirers  secured  the  honor  for  him.  To  him  it 
was  unexpected.  He  accepted  the  trust  as  one  who  felt  that  his 
cause  was  good,  and  that  he  deserved  well  of  the  people. 

The  speeches  which  he  made  during  his  "Western  tour  constitute 
a  monument  as  grand  as  any  statesman  ever  won,  and  prouder  far 
than  those  which  extol  warriors. 

THE    FOREMOST    IN   LOVE    FOB    HIS    FELLOW-MEN". 

[From  tlie  Cincinnati  Commercial.'] 

A  few  weeks  ago  Mr.  Greeley  was  full  of  strength,  animated  by 
a  vast  and  generous  ambition,  confident  of  himself,  inspired  with  the 
highest  faith  in  humanity  and  the  surest  trust  in  the  universal  good- 
ness of  God  ;  and,  even  as  it  was  seen  that  he  was  doomed  to  defeat 
as  a  candidate  for  the  Presidency,  there  was  plainly  growing  in  the 
public  estimation  the  serious  and  tender  respect  due  to  his  exalted 
character  and  the  immense  scope  and  exceeding  brilliancy  of  his 
faculties,  as  they  had  been  made  better  known  than  ever  before 
during  the  campaign. 

Horace  Greeley,  born  at  Amherst,  N.  H.,  February  3,  1811,  died 
at  Tarrytown,  November  29,  1872.  Forty-one  years  ago  he  ap- 
peared as  a  journeyman  printer  in  New  York  city,  and  ten  years  later 
founded  The  New  York  Tribune.  His  genius  as  an  editor  made  him 
famous  through  the  whole  country.  He  has  been  a  celebrity  for 
nearly  a  quarter  of  a  century.  His  face  is  better  known  to  the  world 
than  that  of  any  living  American,  the  President's  not  excepted. 

There  are  half-a-dozen  historic  figures  so  marked  and  familiar 
that  they  can  be  drawn  by  school  children  with  a  few  strokes  of  pen 
or  pencil  so  as  to  be  unmistakable.  One  of  these  is  that  of  Greeley. 
This  very  familiarity  may  not  always  be  flattering,  but  it  proves 
that  the  man  has  stamped  his  image  upon  the  world. 


138  MEMORIAL   OF   HORACE   GREELEY. 

On  the  morning  after  the  nomination  of  Mr.  Greeley  in  this  city 
for  the  Presidency,  we  gave  the  deliberate  judgment  we  had  formed 
of  him,  in  terms  that  we  have  pleasure  in  reproducing,  as  follows : 

"We  have  from  the  beginning  believed  in  his  doctrine  that  with 
impartial  suffrage  should  be  associated  universal  amnesty,  and  we 
share  the  popular  faith  in  his  perfect  integrity. 

His  temperate  and  modest  life,  his  incessant  industry,  his  hatred 
of  shams,  and  warfare  upon  wrongs,  his  courageous  candor,  and 
abounding  generosity,  have  commended  him  to  the  heart  and  con- 
science of  tlie  American  people ;  and  in  whatever  their  confidence 
may  be  shaken,  he  can  safely  defy  the  ingenuity  of  malice — even 
through  the  torments  of  a  Presidential  campaign — to  affect  his  repu- 
tation as  an  honest  man. 

It  was  in  full  confidence  of  the  absolute  accuracy  of  that  esti- 
mate of  the  man  that  we  supported  him  in  his  candidacy  for  the 
Presidency.  In  whatever  he  might  be  misrepresented  or  misappre- 
hended, we  were  sure  that  he  was  true  as  gold  and  steel  in  heart 
and  brain. 

It  seems  strange  that  of  the  four  New  York  editors,  of  whom  a 
few  years  ago  all  men  had  heard,  and  whose  reputation  gave  them 
national  influence,  Raymond,  the  youngest  of  the  four,  was  first  to 
die,  and  that  Bryant,  the  eldest  of  them  all,  alone  survives,  Greeley 
and  Bennett  dying  within  the  same  year. 

As  a  news  collector  and  vendor,  and  in  general  newspaper  man- 
agement, Bennett  distanced  competition.  As  a  literary  man,  as  a 
poet  of  genius,  and  a  gentleman  of  bi-eadth  and  delicacy  of  cultiva- 
tion, Bryant  stood  alone.  As  a  man  of  the  world,  with  accomplish- 
ments that  fitted  him  to  adorn  public  life,  Eaymond  was  without 
I'ivalry.  As  a  vigorous  writer  of  English,  clear  cut  and  meaning 
business,  as  a  man  of  thoughtfulness  upon  subjects  of  the  greatest 
gravity,  and  of  strong  convictions  upon  questions  of  public  moment, 
and  of  unflinching  nerve  in  doing  the  immense  work  that  his  hands 
found  to  do,  and,  above  all,  as  one  who  labored  for  the  good  of  his 
fellow-men,  unselfish  and  lovingly,  Horace  Greeley  was  not  only 
first  in  his  profession,  but  the  foremost  man  of  his  time. 

THE    OPPONENT    OF    HUMAN    INJUSTICE. 

[From  tJie  Chicngo  Tribune.'] 
Mr.  Greeley  was,  by  nature  and  by  education,  opposed  to  every  sys- 
tem of  human  injustice.  He  tested  all  questions  by  inquiring  whether  it 


VOICE   OF   THE   PULPIT  AND  THE  PEESS.  139 

was  for  the  general  good,  and  whether  it  involved  the  oppression  of 
others.  It  was  immaterial  whether  a  measure  or  policy  was  proposed 
by  his  party,  by  his  personal  friends,  or  by  his  adversaries ;  if  it 
involved  injustice,  if  it  recognized  human  oppression,  if  it  degraded 
one  man  to  elevate  another,  he  rejected  it,  and  no  efforts  of  friends 
or  exigencies  of  party  could  induce  him  to  swerve  from  his  convic- 
tions of  right. 

Hence  it  was  that,  from  the  very  earliest  days,  he  was  regarded 
as  an  uncertain  party  man.  He  was  accused  of  eccentricity,  charged 
with  moral  cowardice,  and  frequently  branded  as  an  apostate, 
because  he  would  not  yield  his  judgment  and  ajDprove  what  he  felt 
to  be  wrong,  nor  blindly  follow  party  in  a  cause  he  was  convinced 
was  unjust. 

It  is  popular,  we  know,  to  accuse  Mr,  Greeley  of  a  propensity  to 
separate  from  his  friends  just  at  the  moment  when  his  services  were 
most  needed,  and  this  has  been  attributed  to  an  excessive  personal 
vanity,  and  to  an  erratic,  experimental  disposition  that  was  never  at 
rest 

But  it  should  be  remembered  that  this  estimate  of  Mrs  Greeley 
has  been  taken  in  every  case  from  the  standpoint  of  party ;  it  pre- 
supposes that  the  party  was,  in  all  instances,  right,  and  that  he  was 
wrong,  and  it  of  necessity  rests  upon  that  greatest  of  all  monstros- 
ities of  doctrine  that,  when  a  man  belongs  to  a  political  party,  he 
must  have  no  opinions  or  judgments  of  his  own,  and  much  less 
exj)ress  them,  but  must  follow  wherever  he  may  be  led,  without 
asking  a  question  or  doubting  the  wisdom  of  his  leader. 

So  long  as  the  infallibility  of  party  is  recognized,  the  judgment 
that  he  was  erratic  will  hold  good ;  but  among  men  who  concede 
that  parties  may  be  wrong,  and  that  parties  have  no  lawful  control 
over  the  consciences  and  intellect  of  even  their  own  numbers,  the 
question  will  be.  Was  Greeley  or  the  party  right  ? — or.  Ought  Gree- 
ley, honestly  convinced  that  he  was  right,  to  have  surrendered  his 
judgment  to  that  of  others,  whose  primal  object  was  party  success, 
without  reference  to  considerations  of  right  or  wrong  ? 

Mr.  Greeley  was  intellectually  great.  He  was  an  incessant  stu- 
dent. The  whole  realm  of  knowledge  was  explored  by  him.  His 
range  of  information  was  extraordinary.  He  was  familiar  with  all 
practical  subjects.  His  knowledge  was  rarely  superficial.  What- 
ever information  he  acquired,  he  sought  to  make  useful  to  mankind. 
His  mental  organization  was  extremely  active.     He  Avas  incessant  in 


140  MEMORIAL   OF   HORACE   GREELEY. 

his  labors.  lie  had  traveled  much,  and  each  day's  journey  was  to 
him  a  lesson  filled  with  information,  of  which  he  made  practical  use, 

Nothing  escaped  his  notice ;  nothing  was  forgotten ;  his  mind 
was  a  storehouse,  from  which  he  constantly  drew  facts  for  the 
instruction  of  others.  His  addresses  on  non-political  subjects  have 
been  not  only  numerous,  but  have  been  as  popular  in  one  part  of  the 
country  as  in  another.  Like  his  editorial  writings,  they  have  always 
been  marked  by  vigor  of  thought  and  fluency  of  expression. 

Mr.  Greeley,  however,  is  best  known,  and  his  name  will  be 
remembered  longest,  in  .connection  with  Tlie  New  York  lyibune,  not 
as  a  Whig  organ,  but  as  the  fearless  opponent  of  Slavery.  In  spite 
of  his  independence,  his  association  with  the  Whig  party  hampered 
his  intellect  and  chained  his  energies.  When  that  party  went  down 
in  the  defeat  of  1852,  he  was  emancipated,  and  at  once  gave  free- 
dom to  his  battle  against  Slavery. 

T/ie  New  York  Tribune  was  no  longer  a  party  organ ;  it  became 
the  champion  of  freedom,  the  champion  of  the  men  held  in  slavery, 
the  chamjiion  of  a  Free  Republic.  As  such,  it  found  ready  audi- 
ence. In  the  years  following  the  repeal  of  the  Missouri  Compro- 
mise, until  the  Republican  party  was  an  organized  body  and  installed 
in  power,  The  New  York  Tribune  was  a  power  in  the  land. 

Restrained  by  no  platforms,  by  no  considerations  of  mere  expe- 
diency, by  the  hopes  of  no  candidates,  it  made  the  direct  fight  in 
behalf  of  the  principles  of  Truth,  Freedom,  and  Justice.  It  fired 
the  Northern  heart  ;  it  roused  the  slumbering  instincts  of  human 
justice ;  it  tore  men  from  old  party  associations ;  it  placed  the  ques- 
tioti  in  the  light  that  men  had  to  choose  between  right  and  wrong ; 
it  revolutionized  public  sentiment,  and  revolutionized  jjarties,  and 
brought  about  that  grand  decision  that  it  was  possible  to  elect  a 
Government  which  was  under  no  obligation  to  uphold  Slavery  or 
permit  its  extension. 

That  was  the  time  for  which  Horace  Greeley  was  fitted ;  such 
was  the  conflict  in  which  he  was  calculated  to  particij)ate  with 
honor  and  glory.  And  the  men  who  have  since  professed  to  mourn 
over  his  decay  and  the  loss  of  vigor  of  his  paper,  must  remember 
that,  during  that  memorable  period,  he  fought  not  as  a  member  of 
a  party,  but  in  behalf  of  principle,  and  far  in  advance  of  all  parties. 

Witli  the  accomplished  success  of  the  Republican  party  came 
the  old  bondage,  requiring  him  to  follow  men  who  were  slow  to  fol- 
low when  he  led  the  fight  against  odds.     Intellectually  great,  per- 


VOICE  OF  THE  PULPIT  AND   THE   PEESS.  141 

Bonally  honest,  and  governed  always  by  conviction  of  right,  the  dis- 
cipline, the  restraints,  and  the  despotism  of  party  were  extremely 
irksome,  and  ,often  disgustinor. 

He  sacrificed  much  of  his  honest  judgment  for  party  sake,  but 
there  were  times  when  he  refused  to  submit.  "While  his  long  ser- 
vices were  overlooked,  these  instances  of  insubordination  have  been 
carefully  treasured  against  him,  and  an  attempt  has  been  made  to 
dwarf  his  intellectual  and  moral  greatness  by  presenting  this  or 
that  revolt  against  the  ignorant  and  degrading  commands  of  cau 
cuses. 

The  last  chapter  in  the  political  history  of  Mr.  Greeley  was  the 
late  Presidential  election.  In  the  flush  of  victory,  and  in  the  debates 
over  the  distribution  of  the  spoils,  men  may  forget  to  do  justice  to 
the  vanquished  Horace  Greeley  ;  but  the  time  will  come  when 
his  whole  action  in  that  campaign  will  win  the  admiration,  if  not 
the  aj^proval,  of  the  American  people,  Mr.  Greeley  was  made  a 
candidate  at  Cincinnati,  not  by  the  tricks  of  politicians,  but  in  spite 
of  them. 

His  nomination  was  opposed  by  every  person  to  whom  the  term 
politician  may  be  applied.  His  nomination  was  never  contemplated 
by  those  who  called  that  Convention,  It  was  an  involuntary  tribute 
to  his  intellectual  greatness  and  personal  integrity.  It  suggested 
itself  to  men's  minds  that,  in  a  contest  for  reform,  these  were  com- 
mendable qualities. 

While  they  did  commend  him  to  one  class,  they  perhaps  repelled 
from  his  supjDort  a  body  of  men  who,  desiring  Reform,  could  not 
overcome  their  personal  prejudices,  and  their  dislike  of  the  man 
who  for  thirty  years  had  held  the  scales  of  justice  evenly  balanced, 
and  had  not  failed  to  discard  all  that  was  spurious,  fraudulent,  and 
criminal. 

That  campaign  is  too  recent  to  require  that  its  events  should  be 
rehearsed ;  but  it  may  be  said  that,  during  it,  Mr,  Greeley  displayed 
intellectual  powers  that  surprised  even  those  best  acquainted  with 
him.  His  speeches  and  his  letters,  all  breatliing  the  spirit  of 
Union,  Peace,  and  Universal  Brotherhood,  A\all  remain  among  the 
brightest  gems  of  literature  so  long  as  patriotism  has  a  place  in  the 
hearts  of  the  American  people,  and  intellectual  superiority  can  claim 
an  admirer. 

Horace  Greeley  is  dead !  The  words  will  fill  many  a  heart  with 
pain.     While  filial   afiection  and  friendly  hands  may  entomb  the 


142  MEMORIAL   OF  HORACE   GREELEY. 

body  and  cover  it  from  sight,  the  name  of  Horace  Greeley,  with  the 
long  record  of  his  useful  life,  will  remain  to  his  countrymen,  and  be 
by  them  cherished  with  that  affection  which  an  intolligent  people 
will  ever  entertain  for  patriotism,  rectitude,  and  genius. 

HIS    DEATH    HAED    TO    REALIZE. 

\From  tlie  Richmond  Dispatch.] 

The  news  of  Horace  Greeley's  dangerous  illness  shocked  the 
whole  country,  and  the  tidings  of  his  death  will  be  received  with 
profound  sorrow  throughout  the  civilized  world.  Death,  always 
appalling  in  its  visitations,  seems  to  be  more  than  ever  so  when  its 
victim  is  the  honest  citizen,  the  great  journalist,  the  eminent  states- 
man, whose  name  has  been  of  late  on  every  American  tongue,  and 
who,  a  few  short  weeks  ago,  was  the  proud  standard-bearer  of  mil- 
lions in  a  political  struggle  in  many  respects  unrivaled  in  our  history. 
Rarely  is  it  harder  to  realize  the  presence  of  the  dread  destroyer 
than  in  the  case  of  Horace  Greeley.  America  has  never  seen  an 
abler  joui-nalist,  a  more  zealous  philanthropist,  a  sincerer  patriot,  a 
more  honest  man  than  Horace  Greeley,  whose  loss  the  country 
mourns  to-day. 

MOST    PEOMIXENT    OF    AMEEICA:N^S. 

[From  the  Bangor  Whig  and  Coimer.'] 

The  abrupt  termination  of  the  career  of  a  man  who  for  a  quarter 
of  a  century  had  been  one  of  the  most  prominent  characters  in 
American  politics,  and  who  had  but  recently  occupied  the  conspicu- 
ous position  of  a  Presidential  candidate  through  an  exciting  and 
remarkable  campaign,  can  not  fail  to  create  a  deep  impression 
throughout  the  country.  Perhaps  no  name  in  the  United  States  has 
been  more  familiar  in  every  section  during  the  past  decade  than  that 
of  Horace  Greeley,  and  the  short  period  which  has  elapsed  since  it 
was  passing  from  lip  to  lip  in  every  hamlet  of  the  Union  as  a  party 
slogan  in  a  great  national  canvass,  brings  his  death  home  to  the 
minds  of  the  public  with  a  most  vivid  reality.  The  voice  of  partisan 
bitterness  and  reproach  had  already  been  hushed  by  sympathy  with 
Bickness  and  suffering,  and  it  becomes  silent  in  the  presence  of  death, 
while  friend  and  foe  unite  in  sadness  at  the  sudden  sti'oke  which  has 
smitten  down  a  gifted  and  distinguished  American  citizen. 


VOICE   OF   THE   PULPIT  AND   THE  PKESS.  143 

HIS    LIFE    FEXJITFUL    OF    GOOD, 
[From  the  Pittsburgh  Post.'] 

Mr.  GVeeley  was  emphatically  a  great  man,  a  gifted  citizen,  a 
"born  journalist,  and  such  was  his  integrity  that  the  name  of  "  Hon- 
est Horace  "  is  accepted  as  the  typical  honest  man  of  this  busy  and 
intriguing  generation  for  thirty  years.  But  now  that  the  great 
founder  of  The  Tribune,  the  sage  of  Chappaqua,  the  grand,  gifted, 
political  gladiator  of  a  former  generation  is  at  rest,  who  will  dare 
say  that  his  "  busy  life  "  has  not  been  fruitful  of  beneficent  results 
to  mankind  ? 

For  more  than  a  quarter  of  a  century  he  warred  with  pen  and 
tongue  against  what  Charles  Sumner  called  "  the  sum  of  all  villainy  " 
— human  slavery;  and  during  all  that  eventful  jieriod  he  was  ever 
the  friend  of  the  poor,  the  weak,  the  down-trodden ;  the  friend  and 
champion  of  labor,  and  of  every  object  for  the  amelioration  of  the  race, 
the  slashing  and  defiant  enemy  of  rings  and  rogues,  Avhenever  found. 

Thirty-one  years  ago,  Mr,  Greeley  founded  that  journal  which, 
for  three  decades,  has  been  the  controlling  power  in  American  poli- 
tics, and  concerning  which  the  illustrious  dead  wished  inscribed  on 
his  tomb, "  Founder  of  The  New  York  Tribuney  For  a  quarter  of  a 
century  this  pupil  and  adviser  of  Plenry  Clay  has  stood  in  the  front 
rank  of  social,  industrial,  and  political  reformers.  That  he  made 
mistakes  is  certain.  That  he  made  enemies  by  his  enlarged  and  lib- 
eral views,  and  his  frank,  outspoken  advocacy  of  temperance,  free 
speech,  and  free  labor,  can  not  be  denied  ;  but  taking  the  aggregate 
result  of  his  life  and  works,  both  have  been  a  grand  success,  and 
now  that  he  is  no  more,  we  shall  probably  realize  that  a  great  and 
good  man  has  passed  away. 

OXE    OF   THE    BEST    AXD    GREATEST    SELF-MADE    MEJf. 

\Wr(yni  tlie  Indianapolis  Journal.] 

Death  silences  all  criticism,  and  before  the  grave  men  stand  with 
uncovered  heads.  The  news  of  the  death  of  Horace  Greeley, 
though  not  altogether  unanticipated,  by  reason  of  the  painful  prepa- 
ration which  the  public  mind  has  undergone,  will  nevertheless  be 
received  with  feelings  of  real  grief  throughout  the  length  and  breadth 
of  the  continent. 

That  so  gentle  and  healthy  a  character  should  have  passed  from 
among  us — that  so  capacious  and  well-informed  a  mind  should  have 
gone  out  in  darkness — that  so  distinguished  and  upright  a  citizen 


144  MEMORIAL   OF  IIOP.ACE    GREELEY. 

should  liave  been  suddenly  siuitteu  down — furnish  sufficient  cause 
for  national  mourning. 

The  mutations  of  politics  recently  placed  us  in  an  attitude  of 
hostility  to  the  great  departed  journalist,  and  we  omitted  no  effort 
to  defeat  what  we  then  thought  his  dangerous  aspirations ;  but  iu 
the  presence  of  death  all  bitterness  is  forgotten,  and  in  bending 
over  the  grave  we  think  of  nothing  but  the  poor  boy,  the  indus- 
ti'ious  apprentice,  the  temperate  journeyman,  the  struggling  pub- 
lisher, the  rising  editor,  the  successful  journalist,  the  maker  of 
Presidents,  and  the  dictator  of  policies,  the  friend  of  the  oppressed, 
the  defender  of  liberty,  the  advocate  of  virtue,  the  leader  of  reform, 
the  warm-hearted  philanthropist,  and  the  open-handed  friend. 

He  had  his  faults  and  his  weaknesses — as  what  great  man  has 
not  ? — but,  take  him  for  all  in  all,  we  shall  not  soon  look  upon  his 
like  again.  He  was  one  of  the  very  best  and  greatest  of  our  self- 
made  men. 

GREATER   THAN    IIIS    GENERATION. 

[^From  the  Indianapolis  Sentinel.'] 

In  that  essential  essence  of  a  Christian  life,  which  best  reconciles 
God's  handiwork  to  his  inscrutable  requirements,  Mr.  Greeley  was 
a  preeminent  illustration. 

He  accorded  the  largest  liberty  to  all,  and  demanded  the  same 
for  himself  The  great  ministers — indeed  all  men  struggling  for  the 
building  up  of  such  things  as  enlighten  mankind,  or  alleviate  human 
woes — received  instant,  heaily  cooperation  from  the  xmtiring  phil- 
anthropist. He  lived  to  see  his  three  great  rivals  buried,  Bennett, 
Raymond,  and  Sew'ard. 

The  last  two  he  was  largely  instrumental  in  making.  Ray- 
mond's first  efforts  Averc  under  his  guidance ;  and  Seward  was 
largely  liis  debtor  for  his  early  political  tiiuraph. 

It  is  a  suggestive  lesson — in  recalling  the  marked  events  of 
the  busiest  and  most  eventful  life  in  all  the  annals  of  public  men, 
that  he  never  received  an  office  of  emolument  from  the  people. 
He  made  Governors,  Senators,  Presidents.  Yet  himself,  put  up  for 
inconspicuous  office.  Congressman  and  Comptroller  of  New  York, 
Avas  rejected.  He  never  craved  these  offices.  It  is  one  among  the 
many  calumnies  that  degraded  the  infamous  campaign  just  ended 
that  his  life  Avas  a  continual  thirst  for  office. 

He  was  fond  of  being  before  the  public,  but  he  never  craved 
an  office,  and  never  asked  one.     Does  any  one  suppose  that  at  any 


VOICE   OF  THE   PULPIT  AND   THE   PRESS.  145 

time  within  the  List  ten  years  he  could  not  have  dictated  his 
desires  to  the  Republican  party  ?  Greeley  was  greater  than  office  ; 
he  was  greater  than  his  day  and  generation,  and  no  better  tribute 
can  follow  mortal  man  than  that  his  living  illustrated  his  time,  and 
his  life  was  an  incalculable,  inextinguishable  debt  to  the  nation. 

THE    MOST   MISSED    BY    HIS    COUNTRTMEIf, 

[Fi'om  {he  Missouri  EepziNican.] 

The  swift  sequel  to  the  Presidential  contest  of  18Y2  is  the  almost 
tragic  end  of  one  of  the  distinguished  leaders  in  the  struggle. 

Horace  Greeley  is  dead.  The  fierce  resentments  of  which  he  was 
the  object,  and  which  were  slow  and  sullen  to  subside,  even  after 
the  canvass  of  which  they  formed  a  part,  will  now  at  least  disap- 
pear, since  the  object  of  them  has  departed,  and  men  will  be  per- 
mitted to  reconsider  and  correct  their  estimates  of  the  actors  and 
their  motives  in  the  struggle. 

There  is  something  mournful  and  touching  in  the  abrupt  and 
untimely  death  of  this  distinguished  citizen,  who,  in  addition  to  hav- 
ing been  a  recent  candidate  for  the  Presidency,  has  been,  for  twenty- 
five  years,  more  actively  and  persistently  before  the  eyes  of  the 
American  people  than  any  other  man,  living  or  dead. 

The  death  of  his  wife  in  the  heat  of  the  Presidential  battle, 
his  own  crushing  defeat  in  that  battle,  the  unanswerable  shouts  of 
the  victors  over  his  discomfiture,  and  the  demands  for  measures  of 
ostracism  against  him,  the  spirited  card  in  which  he  announced  his 
return  to  The  Trihime,  the  ominous  inactivity  of  his  pen  that  fol- 
lowed, and  the  dismal,  half-suppressed  rumors  of  his  mental  illness 
which  then  reached  us — all  conspire  to  make  his  fate  a  more  cruel 
one  that  he  deserved,  and  to  extort  even  from  his  enemies  the 
justice  they  denied  him  while  living. 

Whatever  may  be  the  estimates  of  Mr.  Greeley's  character 
formed  by  his  opponents — whether  they  concede  or  deny  that  he  was 
a  statesman,  a  reformer,  a  patriot,  and  a  useful  partisan — it  will  be 
admitted  by  all  that  he  will  be  more  missed  by  his  countrymen  than 
any  other  pubhc  man  that  could  be  named. 

He  certainly  lacked  the  rugged  insensibility  that  should  be  the 
attribute  of  a  trained  statesman  ;  had  he  possessed  it,  he  would  still 
be  living ;  for  there  is  little  doubt  that  the  mortification  of  defeat, 
and  the  pitiless  mockery  of  his  motives  in  daring  to  be  the  Demo- 
cratic candidate,  were  the  cause  of  his  death. 

10 


146  MEMORIAL   OF  HORACE   GREELEY. 

When  we  remarked  the  admirable  composure  and  self-possession 
which  he  exhibited  on  his  campaign  tour  through  Pennsylvania, 
Ohio,  and  Indiana,  we  hoped  the  exigencies  of  a  great  occasion  had 
developed  in  him  an  equanimity  that  was  the  promise  of  many 
years  of  usefulness. 

This  hope  was  strengthened  when  immediately  after  the  election, 
he  addressed  himself  to  his  old  editorial  duties,  in  a  manner  that 
seemed  to  show  that  his  defeat  had  left  no  mark  upon  his  spirit. 

But  it  soon  became  evident  that  he  was  not  sustaining  the  defiant 
part  which  his  card  exhibited.  The  bruises  and  wounds  which  he 
sought  to  hide  were  doing  their  fatal  work ;  and  when  the  first 
whispered  rumor  of  his  illness  was  sent  over  the  country,  it  was  felt 
that  his  usefulness,  if  not  his  life,  was  ended. 

Horace  Greeley  was  a  vehement  partisan,  but  he  was  neither  self- 
ish nor  remorseless  ;  on  the  contrary,  he  was  gentle  and  generous, 
and  this  is  the  true  explanation  of  the  singular  fact  that  he  was,  for 
the  greater  portion  of  his  life,  the  leading  champion  of  anti-Slavery- 
ism,  and  for  the  last  few  days  of  his  life  the  accepted  leader  of  the 
Democracy  in  a  Presidential  contest. 

He  was  not  an  accomplished  supervising  journalist,  but  he  was 
an  unsurpassed  newspaper  writer  ;  and  though  The  Tribune  has  for 
many  years  past  been  under  charge  of  a  managing  editor,  who  had 
discretion  over  all  things  prepared  for  it  except  what  Mr.  Greeley 
wrote,  it  is  Avhat  Mr.  Greeley  wrote  that  first  founded  and  afterward 
sustained  its  character. 

His  habits  were  industrious,  and  the  amount  of  labor  he  was 
capable  of  and  willing  to  do  was  prodigious.  His  vital  powers  were, 
no  doubt,  impaired  by  the  excessive  work  he  gave  to  an  exacting 
and  harassing  profession;  but  it  was  the  defeat  in  the  late  election 
that  broke  down  his  vio-or  and  ended  his  life. 


THE  FUNERAL  ARRANGEMENTS. 

OFFICIAL    PROGRAMME    OF    THE    COMMON    COUNCIL. 

The  Military  and  Civic  Officers  of  the  United  States  in  this  and 
adjoining  cities ; 

The  Officers  of  the  Government  of  the  State  of  New  York,  and 
of  other  States,  now  in  this  city; 


THE  FUNERAL  ARRANGEMENTS.  147 

The  Mayor  and  the  Members  of  the  Common  Council  of  tliis 
city,  and  the  heads  of  the  several  Dej^artments  of  the  Municipal 
Government ; 

The  Mayors  and  Members  of  the  Common  Councils  of  Brooklyn, 
Jersey  City,  Long  Island  City,  Newark,  and  other  neighboring 
cities ;  the  several  officers  of  the  County  of  New  York,  the  Judges 
of  the  Supreme,  Superior,  Marine,  Common  Pleas,  and  District 
Civil  and  Police  Courts  are  hereby  requested  to  meet  in  the  Gov- 
ernor's and  Common  Council's  Rooms,  in  the  City  Hall,  on  Wed- 
nesday, Dec.  4,  at  9  o'clock  a.m.,  where  they  will  be  received  by 
the  Committee,  preparatory  to  proceeding  to  Dr.  Chapin's  church, 
corner  of  Forty-fifth  Street  and  Fifth  Avenue,  and  participating  in 
the  funeral  ceremonies.  In  consequence  of  the  short  space  of  time 
allowed  the  Special  Committee  to  make  the  necessary  arrangements 
for  viewing  the  body  of  the  deceased  while  in  state  in  the  Gov- 
ernor's Room,  and  arranging  for  the  obsequies,  they  are  precluded 
from  extending  personal  invitation  to  the  persons,  corporations,  and 
oflicials  above-mentioned,  and  they  are  hereby  respectively  invited 
to  attend  without  the  formality  of  a  personal  invitation. 

Being  the  day  set  apart  for  solemnizing  the  funeral  rites  and 
ceremonies,  it  is  recommended  by  the  Common  Council  that  our 
citizens  close  their  respective  places  of  business,  and  refrain  from 
any  secular  employment;  that  the  owners  or  masters  of  vessels  in 
the  harbor,  and  the  owners  or  occupants  of  dwellings  in  the  city  be 
requested  to  display  their  flags  at  half-mast  from  sunrise  until  sun- 
set. The  Committee  direct  that  the  flags  on  the  City  Hall  and  all 
other  public  buildings  be  also  disjjlayed  at  half-mast.  The  oflSces 
of  the  Corporation  will  be  closed. 

It  is  particularly  requested  by  the  Committee  that  those  who 
have  charge  of  the  church  and  Fire  Department  bells  in  the  city 
A\dll  cause  them  to  be  tolled  from  1  o'clock  p.m.  until  the  close  of 
the  procession,  about  3  p.m. 

It  .is  also  requested  that  the  houses  along  the  route  may  be  suit- 
ably draped  in  mourning  emblems. 

The  streets  through  which  the  procession  will  pass  are  reserved 
from  curb  to  curb  for  the  funeral  cortege.  On  arriving  at  the 
church  the  guests  will  enter  in  the  same  order,  and  be  seated  as 
directed  by  Alderman  Falconer  and  Assistant  Aldermen  Geis  and 
Connor. 

After  the  services  in  church,  they  will  resume  their  seats  in  the 


148  MEMORIAL    OF    HORACE   GREELEY. 

carriages  in  the  same  order  as  they  arrived,  and  move  in  procession, 
subject  to  the  order  of  the  Chief  of  Police. 

JonN  CociTRAXE,  Chairman,       Jenkin-s  Yan  Schaick, 
Daniel  D.  Conover,  John  Falconer, 

Thomas  Coman, 
Special  Committee  Board  of  Aldermen. 
Nicholas  R.  Connor,  Francis  J.  Geis, 

Michael  Healt,  Joseph  P.  Strack, 

John  Galvin, 
Special  Committee  Board  of  Assistant  Aldermen. 
Francis  J.  TVoiiET,  Secretary. 

By  request  of  the  Mayor  and  Joint  Committee  of  the  Common 
Council,  Superintendent  of  Police  James  J.  Kelso  will  supervise  the 
processional  arrangements,  who  has  provided  as  follows : 

The  remains  Avill  be  privately  removed  from  the  City  Hall  on 
"Wednesday  to  the  house  of  Samuel  Sinclair,  Esq.,  and  will  thence 
be  privately  removed  by  friends  and  TVibune  staff  and  employes  to 
the  Church  of  the  Divine  Paternity  (Dr.  Chapin's),  on  Fifth  Avenue, 
corner  of  Forty-fifth  Street.  The  funeral  services  will  occur  in  the 
church  at  eleven  o'clock,  and  the  body  of  it  will  be  reserved  for  the 
immediate  friends  of  the  deceased,  and  for  those  connected  with 
The  Tribune  establishment,  and  also  the  invited  guests.  Private 
societies  and  citizens  generally  who  expect  to  take  part  in  the  pro- 
cession (which  will  move  as  soon  as  the  services  conclude)  will  please 
station  themselves  in  Fifth  Avenue,  north  of  Forty-fifth  Street,  No 
music  will  be  allowed.  The  route  of  the  procession  will  be  through 
Fifth  Avenue  to  Fourteenth  Street,  Fourteenth  Street  to  Broadway, 
Broadway  to  Hamilton  Ferry. 

The  guests  of  the  City  authorities  will  assemble  at  the  City  Hall 
at  9  a.m.,  and  will  leave  at  10  a.:m,  peremptorily. 

Heads  of  civic  bodies,  civil  functionaries,  and  military  officers 
will  promptly  on  their  arrival  apply  to  F.  J.  Twomey,  Secretary  of 
the  Committee,  at  Room  Xo.  8,  City  Hall,  office  of  the  Clerk  of  the 
Common  Council,  for  tickets  for  seats  in  the  church,  to  the  number 
allowed  by  the  Special  Committee. 

Each  holder  of  a  ticket  for  a  seat  in  church  will  then  be  fur- 
nished with  a  coach  ticket  by  the  Secretary,  on  application, 

George  W,  Roome  and  Edward  Van  Ranst  will  superintend 
seating  the  guests  in  the  coaches,  which  will  proceed  in  the  follow- 
ing order  from  the  City  Hall : 

Mayor  and  Common  Council  of  New  York. 

Heads  of  Departments,  Judges,  and  other  New  York  City  officials. 


THE   FUl^EKAL  AIIRAXGEMENTS.  149 

Mayor  and  Common  Council  of  the  City  of  Brooklyn,  Jersey 
City,  Newark,  Long  Island  City,  and  other  adjoining  cities. 

Military  and  civic  officers  of  the  United  States. 

Officers  of  the  Government  of  the  State,  and  of  other  States, 
now  in  the  City. 

Officers  of  the  County  of  New  Yoi'k. 

The  citizens  generally  are  respectfully  invited  to  join  in  the  fu- 
neral procession,  after  the  line  of  march  is  taken  up  from  the  church, 
after  the  service. 

OTHEK   PREPAEATIONS, 

Superintendent  Kelso,  who  will  act  as  Grand  Marshal  of  the  fu- 
neral procession,  summoned  the  Captains  to  Police  Headquarters, 
on  Tuesday  evening,  and  gave  orders  in  respect  to  the  placing  of  the 
men  under  their  command  along  the  route.  Capt.  Gunner,  of  the 
Nineteenth  Precinct,  was  placed  in  command  of  250  police  from  the 
upper  precincts,  who  will  assemble  around  Dr.  Chaj)in's  Church,  at 
Forty-fifth  Street  and  Fifth  Avenue. 

Capt.  Burden,  of  the  Twenty-ninth  Precinct,  and  Capt.  Williams, 
of  the  Twenty-first,  were  ordered  to  guard  Fifth  Avenue  to  Madison 
Square.  From  Madison  Square  to  Fourteenth  Street,  the  route  was 
given  in  charge  of  Capt.  Sanders,  of  the  Sixteenth  Precinct,  and 
Capt.  Cameron,  of  the  Sixteenth  Precinct.  In  Fourteenth  Street  and 
Union  square,  Capt.  Walsh,  of  the  Seventeenth  Precinct,  will  guard 
the  procession. 

From  Fourteenth  Street,  to  the  City  Hall,  Broadway  will  be 
lined  with  the  men  of  Capt.  Byrnes,  of  the  Fifteenth  Precinct,  Capt. 
McCullogh,  of  the  Eighth  Precinct,  Capt.  Clinchy,  of  the  Fourteenth 
Precinct,  Capt.  Petty,  of  the  Fifth  Precinct,  and  Capt.  Kennedy,  of 
the  Sixth  Precinct.  At  the  City  Hall,  Capt.  Levy,  of  the  Twenty- 
sixth  Precinct,  will  have  charge. 

Below  the  City  Hall  to  the  Battery  will  be  ranged  the  men  of 
Capt.  Williamson,  of  the  Third  Precinct,  Capt.  Cafii*ey,  of  the  Second 
Precinct,  Capt.  Ward,  of  the  Twenty-seventh  Precinct,  and  Capt. 
Van  Dusen,  of  the  First  Precinct.  At  the  Battery  there  will  be  250 
men,  under  the  command  of  Capt.  Copeland,  who  will  guard  the 
ferry.  Capt.  UUman,  of  the  Fourth  Precinct,  will  escort  the  proces- 
sion, and  Capt.  Wilson,  of  the  Mounted  Police,  the  Boards  of  Al- 
dermen. 

A  special  order  was  issued  on  Tuesday  night  by  the  Fire  Commis- 


150  MEMORIAL   OF   HORACE   GREELEY. 

•sioners,  detailing  cigbty-cigbt  men  to  act  as  a  funeral  escort  to 
Horace  Greeley.  The  men  are  ordered  to  report  at  9  o'clock  on  Wed- 
nesday morning  at  Fireman's  Hall,  in  full  uniform  and  white  gloves. 
,The  men  will  form  in  companies  under  the  command  of  Foremen 
King,  Van  Orden,  AValsh,  and  Griffiths,  and  Assistant-Foremen  Mur- 
ry,  Cushman,  Bresnan,  and  Pettigrew ;  the  entire  battalion,  under  the 
command  of  Assistant-Engineer  O'Shay,  will  proceed  to  the  Church, 
and  there  take  their  place  in  the  line.  The  Commissioners  have  re- 
solved to  attend  the  funeral  in  a  body. 

A  large  number  of  organizations  will  join  the  line  after  the 
services  in  the  church. 

AT   THE    CITY    HALL. 

[From  The  Tribune,  Dec.  A.] 

There  has  never  been,  within  the  memory  of  men  now  living,  a 
more  touching,  a  more  impressive  testimonial  of  popular  grief  and 
aflEection  than  that  with  which  New  York  yesterday  consecrated 
the  first  sad  scene  in  the  obsequies  of  her  departed  citizen.  The 
mourning  for  Mr.  Lincoln,  it  is  true,  was  held  in  the  midst  of  more 
splendid  demonstrations.  Beside  the  coffin  of  the  mnrdered  Presi- 
dent stood  military  guards  and  officers  of  state ;  martial  trappings 
glittered  among  the  drapery  of  woe,  and  sti-ains  of  melancholy 
music  mingled  with  the  tramp  of  the  multitude,  as  the  nation 
crowded  around  the  martyr's  remains.  Yesterday  there  was  neither 
official  parade  nor  the  ostentation  of  a  state  funeral.  The  body  of 
Horace  Greeley,  editor,  farmer,  philanthropist,  plain,  honest  citizen, 
familiar  friend  of  us  all,  was  brought  quietly  in  the  early  morning 
light  to  the  City  Hall,  and  there  all  day  and  far  into  the  night,  the 
rich  and  the  poor,  the  old  and  the  young,  fathers  with  their  little 
children,  maimed  soldiers  on  crutches,  generals,  merchants,  lawyers, 
beggars,  came  to  take  a  last  look  at  his  kind  face.  It  was  not  so 
much  the  greatness  of  the  multitude  which  made  this  demonstration 
impressive ;  it  Avas  not  splendor  in  the  ceremonies  nor  richness  in 
the  funeral  decorations.  But  it  was  the  purely  spontaneous  char- 
acter of  the  tribute  to  a  good  man's  memory,  and  the  unaffected 
sorrow  which  stamped  the  countenances  of  the  throng,  and  found 
expression  many  a  time  in  tears  and  cries.  It  was  a  fitting  scene 
to  be  enacted  around  the  bier  of  Horace  Greeley.  He  gave  up  his 
life  to  the  people,  and  the  people  are  his  mourners. 

The  body  was  taken  to  the  City  Hall  at  an  early  hour  yesterday 


THE   FUIJfEEAL  AEEAIS'GEMENTS.  151 

morning,  and  the  removal  was  made  as  quietly  as  possible.  Mi-. 
"Wood,  the  sexton  of  Dr.  Chapin's  Church,  brought  the  hearse  to 
Mr.  Sinclair's  house  in  "West  Forty-fifth  Street  by  seven  o'clock, 
No  notice  had  been  given  of  these  proceedings,  but  in  a  few  mo- 
ments the  place  was  surrounded  by  a  large  crowd  of  spectators, 
who  silently  looked  on  while  the  coffin  was  placed  in  the  hearse  and 
rapidly  driven  away.  A  number  of  Mr.  Greeley's  nearest  friends 
followed  it  to  the  City  Hall.  There,  at  7:45  a.m.,  it  was  received 
by  the  sexton's  assistants,  Mr.  Roome,  the  keeper  of  the  Hall,  and 
various  other  officials,  and  borne  at  once  to  the  Governor's  Room, 
where  the  ceremony  of  lying  in  state  was  to  take  place.  The  storm 
of  the  night  before  had  interfered  a  great  deal  with  the  external 
di'ajiei-ies  of  the  building,  many  decorations  put  up  by  Mr.  Roome 
having  been  swept  away;  but  since  daylight  workmen  had  been 
busily  replacing  what  had  been  destroyed.  The  columns  of  the 
vestibule  were  wound  about  with  black.  Long  black  festoons 
drooped  over  the  fagade ;  and  the  well-known  life-size  photograph 
of  Mr.  Greeley,  by  Fredericks,  representing  him  seated  and  reading, 
was  placed  over  the  balcony,  heavily  draped.  Beneath  it  were  the 
words,  "  "We  remember  with  Pride  his  Busy  Life."  A  strong  force 
of  police  was  already  on  the  ground.  The  approaches  to  the  Hall 
were  strictly  guarded.  "\^isitors  were  kept  at  a  distance  until  the 
hour  appointed  should  arrive;  and  so  with  only  a  few  friends  to 
bear  him  company,  Horace  Greeley  was  carried  thi-ough  the  iron 
gates  and  up  the  main  stairway. 

IN    THE    governor's    ROOM. 

The  Governor's  Room,  in  which  the  coffin  was  deposited,  was  a 
fit  place  for  the  purpose.  How  many  of  the  great  men  whose  names 
will  be  associated  hereafter  Avith  his  have  stood  in  that  room  to 
receive  the  honors  of  their  countrymen ;  how  many  illustrious  his- 
tories speak  from  the  portraits  which  cover  the  walls ;  how  many 
patriotic  memories  haunt  the  antique  furniture  ranged  about  the 
chamber  !  At  the  foot  of  the  coffin  is  the  broad  mahogany  table 
used  by  "Washington  when  the  Government  was  established  in  New 
York.  Behind  it  is  the  broad  fauteuil,  with  its  row  of  gilt  stars, 
which  used  to  be  set  apart  for  the  Father  of  his  Countrv,  and  next 
to  that  is  the  chair  of  Vice-President  John  Adams.  Tlie  office- 
desks  of  "Washington  and  his  private  secretary  are  also  hei-e,  and 
along  the  sides  of  the  room  stand  the  arm-chairs  used  by  the  first 


152  MEMORIAL   OF    HORACE  GEEELEY, 

Congress  under  the  Federal  Constitution,  which  assembled  in  New- 
York  in  1789.  The  .shadowy  forms  of  Roger  Sherman,  and  Fisher 
Ames,  and  James  Madison,  and  Richard  Henry  Lee,  of  Muhlen- 
burgh,  and  Langdon,  and  Boudinot,  and  Robert  Morris,  seem  to 
speak  from  these  venerable  relics  of  patriotic  times,  and  to  welcome 
the  spirit  of  the  departed  statesman  and  philosopher  into  the  com- 
pany of  the  great  who  have  passed  away.  From  one  end  of  the 
room  the  portrait  of  Jefferson  gazes  down  upon  tlae  assemblage. 
From  the  other  looks  out  the  strong  face  of  Morgan  Lewis,  signer 
of  the  Declaration,  Quartermaster-General  in  the  Revolution,  and 
third  Governor  of  the  State  of  New  York.  The  portrait  of  Seward, 
painted  in  the  flower  of  that  statesman's  manhood,  when  he  and 
Horace  Greeley  were  great  powers  iii  New  York  politics,  is  still 
draped  in  the  mourning  which  was  hung  about  it  two  months  ago. 
Here,  too,  are  the  faces  of  De  Witt  Clinton,  and  Throop,  and  Yates, 
and  Marcy ;  of  Tompkins,  known  in  his  day  as  "  the  Farmer  Boy 
of  Westchester,"  at  whose  recommendation  the  bill  was  passed  iu 
1817  forever  abolishing  Slavery  iu  the  State  of  New  York  ;  of  Bouck, 
famous  in  connection  with  the  Erie  Canal ;  of  Silas  Wright ;  of 
Martin  Van  Bureu ;  and  of  the  later  Governors  who  are  still  living, 
and  of  whom  some  were  among  the  throng  yesterday.  Here,  too, 
are  the  portraits  of  historic  Mayors — Duane  who  received  Washing- 
ton when  he  entered  New  York  to  be  inaugurated  President  of  the 
United  States,  Varick,  Livingston,  Willett,  Hone,  Harper.  Here  are 
Presidents,  and  generals,  and  discoverers;  Columbus  and  Hudson, 
Washington  and  Steuben;  Jackson,  Monroe,  and  Taylor;  Lafliyette, 
and  McComb,  and  Scott ;  Perry  and  Decatur ;  Hull  and  3IcDonough. 
It  is  a  noble  company,  and  iu  the  midst  of  it  Horace  Greeley  rested, 
not  the  least  of  the  illustrious  assemblage. 

The  funeral  draperies  were  appropriately  simple  und  unpreten- 
tious. The  thick  red  curtains,  faded  and  worn,  were  drawn  across 
the  immense  windows.  Black  hangings  drooped  from  the  central 
window,  and  intertwined  with  the  national  flag  about  the  principal 
door.  At  either  end  of  the  room  the  double  doorways  leading  into 
the  adjoining  apartments  were  similarly  hung  Avith  black.  In  front 
of  the  portrait  of  Gov.  Lewis  was  a  quaint  design  sent  by  people  of 
Chappaqiia — a  shield  of  black  serge  bearing  a  wreath  composed  of 
ears  of  wheat,  with  the  legend  "  It  is  done  "  above,  and  an  ax  and  a 
pen  crossed  below.  Inside  the  wreath  were  the  following  memorial 
verses : 


THE  FUNERAL  ARRANGEMENTS.  153 

Work  !  while  bright  daylight  on  thy  path  is  beaming, 

Work  !  while  'tis  clay  ; 
Despond  not,  thou,  although  thy  task  is  seeming 

To  last  alway : 
Trust  when  the  dusky  shadows  o'er  thee  flying 

Obscure  the  sun ; 
Though  Duty's  task  is  ended  but  by  dying, 

Let  it  be  done. 

Work !  while  bright  daylight  on  thy  path  is  beaming, 

But  not  for  gold  ; 
Fame  proves  a  phantom,  and  our  idle  dreaming 

Is  a  tale  that's  told : 
But  cherish  ever  with  a  grand  emotion 

A  zest  for  strife : 
Our  earthly  bii'thright  is  the  wild  commotion, — 

This  three-fold  life. 

Work  !  while  bright  daylight  on  thy  path  is  beaming, 

For  night  palls  down  ; 
Work  !  while  the  luster  in  thine  eye  is  beaming, 

To  win  the  crown  : 
Work  with  thy  hand,  and  thy  many  talents, — 

Aye !  with  thy  soul ! 
Thy  three-fold  life,  weighed  in  the  eternal  balance, 

Demands  the  whole ! 

BiiAucHE  D'Aktois  (Julia  Lattoh;. 

The  daylight  was  not  smothered,  but  only  softened.  The  bright 
sun  struggled  through  the  half-concealed  windows.  The  gas  burned 
dimly  in  the  three  chandeliers  overhead.  There  was  just  that  sub- 
dued religious  atmosphere  w^hich  disposes  the  mind  to  reverence,  but 
not  to  gloom ;  and  the  pale,  careworn,  emaciated  features  of  the 
dead  were  plainly  distinguishable.  The  coffin  is  a  black  cloth-cov- 
ered casket,  richly  but  not  elaborately  fitted  w^ith  silver  handles  and 
silver  rims,  and  lined  with  white  satin.  Mr.  Greeley  was  dressed  in 
a  full  suit  of  black.  His  right  hand  rested  on  his  breast ;  his  left 
arm  was  extended  by  his  side.  The  withered  fingers,  the  pinched 
features,  the  sharp-set  mouth,  so  difierent  of  what  we  remember  of 
him  in  life,  told  more  forcibly  than  words  could  tell  it  the  story  of 
his  sufferings,  his  weariness,  and  his  happy  release.  The  coffin  lid 
was  thrown  back  upon  its  hinges,  leaving  the  whole  of  the  body 
exposed  to  view.  A  narrow  dais,  perhaps  a  foot  and  a  half  high, 
covered  with  black  drapery,  received  the  casket.  There  were  no 
lights  about  it,  no  ornaments  of  any  kind,  no  guards  but  the  police, 


154  MEMORIAL   OF  HORACE  GREELEY. 

who  patiently,  courteously,  and  faithfully  did  duty  all  day  long.  It 
stood  in  the  center,  lengthwise  of  the  room,  and  tables  at  the  head  and 
foot — relics  of  the  Congress  of  eighty  years  ago — held  the  beautiful 
offerings  of  flowers  which  reverential  and  affectionate  hands  kept 
bringing  from  morning  till  the  day  Avas  far  spent.  The  Common 
Council  (represented  in  this  matter  by  Assistant  Alderman  Connor) 
sent  two  magnificent  structures  of  flowers;  one,  placed  at  the  foot 
of  the  cofliu,  was  a  huge  disk  of  white  and  green,  on  which  was 
represented,  in  purple  everlastings,  the  coat  of  arms  of  the  City  of 
New  York,  Avith  this  legend  around  it:  "The  city  mourns  its  loss;" 
the  other,  at  the  head,  Avas  a  cross  and  croAvn,  resting  on  a  white 
pediment  which  bore  the  text :  "  I  knoAV  that  my  Redeemer  liveth." 
Behind  this,  draped  with  crape,  was  an  imperial  photograph  of  Mr. 
Greeley ;  and  behind  and  above  the  photograph  towered  a  rich  ci'oss 
and  crown,  the  gift  of  Mayor  Hall.  Graceful  strings  of  smilax, 
mixed  Avith  tube-roses  twined  about  the  edges  of  the  coffin  and 
credit  along  by  the  body,  and  the  place  was  redolent  of  sweet  per- 
fumes and  bright  with  pure  and  beautiful  blossoms.  Later  in  the 
day  came  offerings  from  many  other  sources.  The  girls  of  Grammar 
School  No.  9  sent  a  large  anchor  of  flowers  with  the  motto,  "  Fama 
semper  A^ivat."  Mrs.  Thomas  N.  Rooker  and  Mrs.  Benjamin  F. 
Manierre  sent  rich  tributes  in  aj^propriate  forms. 

THE    MULTITUDE. 

Long  before  the  simple  preparations  Avere  complete,  the  crowd  in 
the  Park  had  swollen  to  enormous  proportions.  Captain  Leary,  of 
the  Twentj'-sixth  Precinct,  Avith  a  detail  of  one  hundred  men  from 
A'arious  parts  of  the  city,  took  charge  of  the  arrangements,  and  under 
his  supervision  the  most  perfect  order  Avas  maintained.  The  people 
Avere  formed  in  line,  two  abreast,  from  the  front  gates  of  the  Hall, 
across  the  esplanade,  westward  to  Broadway,  and  thence  up-tOAvn. 
Officers  at  various  points  along  the  line  prevented  unnecessary  crowd- 
ing, and  kept  the  queue  unbroken.  The  whole  space  in  front  of  tlie 
Hall  Avas  soon  filled  with  idle  spectators,  and  before  long  it  became 
necessary  to  clear  a  wide  space,  put  uj)  chains,  and  close  several  of 
the  i)ath\vays.  Nine  o'clock  Avas  the  hour  fixed  upon  for  the  doors 
to  be  opened;  but  the  multitude  increased  so  rapidly  that  ten  or 
fifteen  minutes  before  tliat  time  the  head  of  the  line  was  admitted. 
The  people  passed  up  tlie  main  staircase,  through  a  double  line  of 
police,   entered  the  room  in  single  file,  passed  rapidly  around  the 


THE  FUNEEAL  AEEANGEMENTS.  155 

coffin,  and  went  out  by  the  western  door,  down  the  narrow  stairs  by 
the  chamber  of  the  Board  of  Aldermen,  and  through  the  basement, 
and  so  out  on  the  Broadway  side.  No  one  was  allowed  to  loiter ; 
and  so  quietly  and  expeditiously  was  the  passage  made,  that  it  was 
found  by  actual  count  that  from  forty  to  fifty  persons  passed  through 
the  room  every  minute,  or  nearly  three  thousand  an  hour. 

A  guard  of  honor  had  been  appointed  to  watch  the  remains  while 
the  people  came  to  look  upon  them.  It  comprised  Gen.  John  A. 
Dix,  the  Hon,  Wm.  F.  Havemeyer,  Thurlow  Weed,  George  W. 
Varian,  Wm.  Butler  Duncan,  A.  T.  Stewart,  Abraham  R.  Lawrence, 
Wm.  J.  Hoppin,  Wm.  Cullen  Bryant,  Henry  Nicol,  Peter  Cooper, 
Wm,  B.  Astor,  Thomas  E.  Stewart,  Horatio  Seymour,  John  McKeon, 
Samuel  Tilden,  Sheppard  Knapp,  John  T,  Hofiman,  A,  Oakey  Hall, 
Moses  H,  Grinnell,  Charles  O'Conor,  Emil  Sauer,  Augustus  Schell, 
Wm,  M.  Evarts,  Chas.  P.  Daly,  and  William  C.  Prime ;  and  to  these 
were  added,  by  the  request  of  Miss  Ida  Greeley,  Mr.  John  B.  Stuart, 
of  Tarry  town,  and  Mr.  Edward  J,  Carpenter,  of  Chappaqua.  The 
first  to  arrive,  early  in  the  morning,  were  Gen,  John  A,  Dix  and 
Mr,  Augustus  Schell.  All  through  the  day  and  evening  several 
members  of  this  guard  of  honor,  relieving  each  other,  sat  about  the 
room.  Committees  from  the  Aldermen  and  Assistant  Aldermen,  and 
deputies  from  the  guard  of  honor  of  the  Typographical  Society  were 
constantly  present.  These,  with  the  oflicers  on  duty,  and  represent- 
atives of  the  editorial  staff  of  The  Tribune^  were  the  persons  ap- 
pointed to  keep  watch  over  the  departed  chief. 

In  less  than  an  hour  from  the  time  of  opening  the  gates,  the 
double  line  reached  through  the  City  Hall,  through  the  Park,  and 
four  blocks  up  Broadway.  And  what  a  multitude  it  was !  Much 
as  we  all  knew  of  the  popular  esteem  for  Horace  Greeley,  much  as 
we  expected  of  the  demonstrations  on  such  an  occasion  as  that  of 
yesterday,  we  were  not  prepared  for  this  immense  outpouring  of  the 
people.  For  it  was,  in  the  truest  sense  of  the  word,  the  people  who 
crowded  yesterday  about  the  bier  of  their  champion.  The  million- 
aire walked  side  by  side  with  the  crossing-sweeper.  Famous  law- 
yers kept  step  with  ragged  bootblacks.  Ladies  in  silk  and  fur  came 
behind  the  shop-girl  in  her  faded  worsted  shawl.  It  can  not  be  said 
that  any  one  class  predominated  in  this  extraordinary  multitude, 
unless  it  be  that  the  working-people  Avere  more  numerous  than  the 
well-to-do  and  the  idlers.  But  all  classes  were  there,  and  all  seemed 
to  feel  the  sorrow  of  the  day.     An  old  lady  approached  the  coffin, 


156  MEMORIAL  OF  HOEAOE  GEEELEY. 

gave  one  quick  glance  at  the  poor,  wasted  face,  then  raised  her  hand 
to  her  eyes  and  hurried  away,  with  tears  streaming  down  her  cheeks ; 
she  could  not  trust  herself  to  linger  even  for  an  instant.  An  old 
gentleman  leaned  over  the  coffin  and  placed  his  hand  reverently 
upon  the  dead  man's  brow.  Many  stooped  to  kiss.  Several  gave 
way  to  extravagant  outbursts  of  grief  Men  brought  their  little 
cliildren,  and  lifted  them  up  that  they  might  look  at  the  good  Horace 
Greeley,  and  then  hurried  away,  blinded  by  their  tears.  Stalwart 
policemen,  not  on  duty,  fell  into  line,  and  came  out  from  the  room 
with  moist  eyes  and  quivering  lips.  Once  or  twice  loud  cries  of 
sorrow  were  heard,  aud  some  of  those  most  deeply  affected  could 
hardly  be  induced  to  pass  on  and  leave  the  Avay  for  others.  There 
was  little  of  the  vulgar  curiosity,  or  the  rude  insensibility  to  emo- 
tion, which  almost  always  mars  the  imjjressiveness  of  public  funeral 
displays.  K  it  was  only  the  few  who  paid  to  the  deceased  the  elo- 
quent tribute  of  tears,  it  can  at  least  be  said  of  the  many  that  they 
came  with  reverent  step  and  sorrowful  countenance,  breaking  the 
solemnity  of  the  ceremony  with  no  light  chatter,  or  unseemly  haste 
or  eagerness,  and  showed  by  every  motion  that  they  shared  in  the 
universal  mourning.  If  Horace  Greeley  could  have  chosen  how  he 
should  be  mourned,  he  Avould  have  asked  for  just  such  a  testimonial 
of  the  popular  afiection ;  he  would  have  begged  that  drums  and 
banners,  and  all  the  pomp  of  bayonets  and  regalia,  should  be  kept 
awaj',  and  that  the  people,  for  whom  he  had  worked  so  unselfishly 
all  his  life,  should  come  around  his  coffin  with  these  touching  marks 
of  love  and  aj)preciation,  their  sad  faces,  their  hushed  voices,  their 
trembling  lips,  and  reverential  step. 

Early  in  the  morning  tlie  working-people  were  in  the  majority. 
Professional  men,  merchants,  merchants'  clerks,  and  others,  includ- 
ing a  great  many  ladies,  were  mingled  with  them ;  but  the  poor 
were  by  far  the  most  numerous.  And  yet  many  of  them  could  ill 
affiard  the  time  devoted  to  this  last  mark  of  regard.  Few  succeeded 
in  reaching  the  Hall  until  they  had  stood  an  hour  or  two  hours  in  line. 
Thousands,  after  long  waiting,  were  obliged  to  abandon  the  attempt, 
aud  go  disappointed  to  their  work.  Yet  from  a  quarter  before  nine  in 
the  morning  until  ten  o'clock  at  night,  there  was  no  interruption  in 
the  ever-moving  stream.  Until  near  evening  the  end  of  the  queue 
was  still  in  the  neighborhood  of  Duane  Street,  and  in  the  meantime 
a  second  line,  exclusively  for  women  and  men  escorting  them,  had 
been  formed  on  the  east  side  of  the  Hall,  reaching  across  the  espla- 


THE  FFNEEAL   AEEAT^GEMEIs^TS.  157 

nade  nearly  to  Printing-house  Square.  Looking  clown  these  long 
lines  the  preponderance  of  -working-people,  men  and  women,  was 
very  distinct,  and  it  was  often  the  subject  of  remarks  among  the  mul- 
titude— remarks  generally  suggestive  and  always  feelingly  expressed. 
There  was  one  hard-handed  son  of  toil,  whose  comments  on  this  cir- 
cumstance attracted  a  great  deal  of  attention  for  a  few  moments. 
"  Yes,"  said  he,  "  we  are  working-men  here,  and  what  if  it  does  cost 
■as  a  little  time  ?  It  is  little  enough  to  lose  a  day  for  Horace  Gree- 
ley, who  spent  many  a  day  working  for  us.  That  man  has  done 
more  to  help  working-men  than  any  other  American  who  ever  lived, 
and  he's  done  it  by  hard  labor,  too.  He  spent  forty  years  working  to 
elevate  the  condition  of  laboring  men.  ]Mr.  Lincoln  was  given  a  great 
opportunity  to  raise  up  one  race  of  working-men;  but  that  was  an 
accident  or  a  providence.  Greeley  has  helped  all  men  by  hard,  earn- 
est laboi',  and  if  what  he  did  isn't  so  striking  as  what  Mr.  Lincoln 
did  for  the  blacks,  it's  just  as  real,  every  bit."  This  was  said  in 
broken  phrases  and  rude  English ;  but  the  speaker's  earnestness,  his 
common  sense,  and  toward  the  last  his  emphasis,  drew  around  him  a 
crowd  of  listeners.  When  he  had  finished,  he  relapsed  suddenly  into 
silence,  and  the  gap  in  the  line  was  quickly  closed  up. 

Toward  midday  the  suburban  railroads  brought  in  vast  crowds 
of  country  people.  Fai-raers  came,  often  with  their  entire  families, 
and  gazed  with  evident  emotion  upon  the  man  whom  for  the  space 
of  a  full  generation  they  had  been  accustomed  to  reverence  as  the 
wisest  and  most  practical  of  guides.  Well-dressed  citizens  now  be- 
came more  numerous,  and  the  Governor's  Room  was  soon  thronged 
with  officials  and  local  celebrities.  The  venerable  Thurlow  Weed 
stood  beside  the  coffin  of  one  of  his  famous  associates,  and  looked 
sadly  upon  the  draped  portrait  of  the  other  who  breathed  his  last 
only  a  few  weeks  ago  at  Auburn.  With  him  were  Samuel  J.  Tilden 
and  Gen.  E.  A,  Merritt,  of  St.  Lawrence,  Mr.  Greeley's  companion 
on  his  Southern  tour  a  year  ago.  The  meeting  of  these  three  repre- 
sentative politicians  of  the  three  political  parties,  all  evidently  af- 
fected by  the  sad  incident  which  had  called  them  together,  was  re- 
marked with  no  little  interest.  Augustus  Schell  stood  beside  Gen. 
John  A.  Dix  ;  Thomas  C.  Acton,  Chief  of  the  Assay  Office  and  ex- 
President  of  the  Board  of  Police,  conversed  with  Jackson  S.  Schultz 
and  Gen.  John  Cochrane,  Ex-Police  Superintendent  Kennedy  left 
his  sick  bed  to  see  the  last  of  a  man  who  for  many  years  had  been 
his  friend.     The  Hon.  Abraham  R.  Lawrence,  Dock  Commissioners 


158  MEMORIAL  OF  HORACE  GREELEY. 

Agncw  antl  Kane,  Gen.  Martin  T.  McMalion,  Reciever  of  Taxes; 
Gen.  William  Averill,  of  cavalry  fame ;  Gen,  Jacob  Sharp,  Gen. 
Franz  Sigel,  the  Hon.  Thomas  E.  Stewart,  Nelson  J.  Waterbury, 
Mayor  Hall,  Commissioner  Van  Nort,  Deputy  Comptroller  Storrs, 
Walter  B,  Duncan,  Police  Commissioners  Bosworth,  Maniei-re, 
and  Barr,  Justices  Ledwith,  Hogan,  and  Koch,  Charles  O'Conor, 
.John  McKeon,  and  Judsje  Van  Voorst  were  noticed  among  the 
visitors. 

About  six  o'clock  the  queue  grew  perceptibly  shorter;  but  in 
a  little  while,  when  people  were  released  from  work,  a  fresh  rush 
began,  and  the  line  became  as  long  as  ever.  The  preponderance  of 
the  laboring  class  again  became  very  marked.  Colored  peoj)le,  who 
had  not  been  very  numerous  during  the  day,  now  came  in  large 
bodies.  The  Third  Avenue  cars  discharged  crowds  of  Germans  in 
front  of  the  Hall,  and  a  steady  stream  moved  down  Broadway. 
The  Committee  of  the  Common  Council  A'oted  to  keep  the  room 
open  until  midnight  if  necessary.  But,  thanks  to  the  excellent 
arrangements  of  the  police  and  the  decorous  temper  of  the  visitors, 
the  lines  were  kept  moving  so  rapidly  that  by  the  advertised  hour — 
ten  o'clock — it  was  possible  to  close  the  gates,  and  give  over  the 
remains  of  the  illustrious  dead  to  the  tender  hands  which  are  finally 
to  fit  them  for  burial.  Before  the  cofiin  was  shut  down  the  whole 
force  of  police  on  duty  at  the  City  Hall  filed  slowly  in  front  of  it. 
Then  the  doors  were  locked,  and  as  soon  as  the  last  of  the  crowd 
had  dispersed,  the  body  was  carried  once  more  to  the  hearse  and 
removed  to  Mr.  Sinclair's.  Mr.  Stewart  and  Mr.  Carpenter  followed 
it,  and  Avatched  with  it  through  the  night. 

The  estimates  of  the  number  of  people  who  took  part  in  the 
demonstration  of  yesterday  vary  greatly,  as  such  estimates  always 
do.  The  conjectures  of  unskilled  observers  are  invariably  extrava- 
gant. Many  placed  the  figures  as  high  as  150,000.  It  is  generally 
agreed  that  the  crowd  exceeded  that  at  the  Lincoln  obsequies  in  the 
same  place.  Close  counts  of  the  people  Avho  eutei'ed  the  Governor's 
Room  at  various  hours  of  the  day  give  from  forty  to  seventy-five  a 
minute,  the  sjjced  being  considerably  greater  toward  evening  than 
in  the  earlier  part  of  the  day.  A  fair  average  would  doubtless  bo 
about  fifty  a  minute,  or  3,000  an  hour.  As  the  stream  flowed  with- 
out an  instant's  intermission  for  more  than  thirteen  hours,  we  have 
a  total  of  about  40,000.  If  avc  remember  that,  so  far  as  can  be 
judged  from  appearances,  a  very  small  proportion  of  these  thousands 


THE   CLOSING   CEREMONIES.  159 

came  through  idle  curiosity,  we  shall  understand  the  true  signifi- 
cance of  the  tribute  to  Horace  Greeley's  memory. 


THE   CLOSING   CEREMONIES. 

THE    FUNERAL. 

[From  The  Tribune,  Dec.  5.] 

Before  ten  o'clock  the  friends  and  associates  of  our  departed 
chief  began  to  gather  in  great  numbers  at  the  residence  of  Mr. 
Samuel  Sinclair,  in  "West  Forty-fifth  Street,  where  the  remains  had 
rested  since  their  removal  from  the  City  Hall.  The  coffin  was  still 
open.  It  was  placed  in  the  front  parlor,  and  all  about  it  was  the 
greatest  profusion  of  rare  and  beautiful  flowers,  ofierings  from  the 
bereaved  children,  from  friends  and  admirers,  from  the  diflTerent 
departments  of  The  7}-ibune,  and  from  various  clubs  and  societies. 
It  is  not  too  much  to  say  that  the  house  could  hardly  contain  the 
multitude  of  flowers  that  were  brought  to  it.  As  the  invited  guests 
arrived,  they  passed  through  the  room,  looked  for  a  moment  on  the 
dead  man's  face,  and  went  out  by  another  door.  A  large  force  of 
jjolice  kept  order  in  the  street,  and  a  full  platoon  stood  drawn  up 
in  line,  ready  to  move  at  the  head  of  the  procession.  The  employes 
of  The  Tribune  formed  in  double  line  on  the  sidewalk.  It  was  a 
few  minutes  after  eleven  when  the  pall-bearers,  twenty  in  number, 
issued  from  the  house,  and  the  procession  prepared  to  move.  The 
venerable  Chief-Justice  Chase,  with  the  Hon.  William  M.  Evarts,  led 
the  way.  Senators  Trumbull  and  Fenton  followed.  Mr.  Thurlow 
Weed,  who  has  given  repeated  marks  of  his  esteem  for  the  memory 
of  his  old  friend,  walked  with  Mr.  John  E.  Williams.  Mr.  Ivory 
Chamberlain  and  Mr.  Erastus  Brooks,  the  Rev.  Dr.  Bright  and  Mr. 
Sinclair  Tousey,  Mr.  William  Orton  and  Mr.  R.  M.  Hoe,  Mr.  D.  W. 
Bruce  and  Mr.  P.  C.  Baker,  Mr.  Robert  Bonner  and  Mr.  J.  G.  Light- 
body,  Mr.  Dudley  S.  Gregory  and  Mr.  Charles  S.  Storrs,  Mr.  A.  J. 
Johnson  and  Mr.  John  R.  Stuart,  completed  the  list. 

Then  came  the  coffin,  borne  on  the  shoulders  of  six  men ;  and 
when  the  bearers  had  taken  their  places,  and  the  family  and  par- 
ticular friends,  to  the  number  of  about  a  hundred,  had  followed,  the 
newspaper  fraternity  brought  up  the  line.  The  employes  of  The 
Tribune  marched  in  the  following  order : 


160 


MEMOEIAL   OF  HOEACE   GEEELEY. 


THE  EDITORIAL  DEPAKTMENT. 


"WniTELAw  Reid,  George  Ripley, 

John  R.  G.  Hassard,  Charles  T.  Congdon, 

Oliver  Johnson,  Joim  Hat,  Noah  Brooks, 
Mrs.  Moulton,  Mrs.  R.  H.  Davis,  Miss  Hutchinson, 


Mrs.  L.  G.  C.  Runkle, 
Mrs.  G.  H.  S.  Hull, 
W.  C.  Wyckofp, 
Z.  L.  White, 
Wii-LiAM  Winter, 
J.  S.  Pike, 
W.  M.  O'Dwter, 
C.  S.  Hunt, 
J.  L.  Hance, 


Miss  Kate  Field, 
Mrs.  Laura  Lym^vn, 
E.  E.  Sterns, 
H.  J.  Ramsdell, 
E.  C.  Stedman, 
A.  B.  Crandell, 
D.  Nicholson, 
J.  B.  Bishop, 
H.  H.  St.  Clair, 


P.  T.  QuiNN,  William  H.  Trafton,  Clarkson  Tabeb. 


the  city  staff. 


Wn.LiAM  F.  G.  Shanks, 
George  W.  Pearce, 
W.  P.  Sullivan, 
J.  J.  Chajvibers, 
E.  B.  Taber, 
T.  F.  Blackwell, 
A.  N.  Leet, 
S.  C.  Caldwell, 
J.  H.  Mason, 
Henry  Chadwick, 
D.  J.  Sullivan, 
Thomas  McWatters, 
Thomas  Diiury, 


I.  N.  Ford, 
George  E.  jMiles, 
H.  H.  Mason, 
E.  L.  MuRi-iN, 
D.  N.  Beach, 
William  A.  Harris, 

J.  A.  COLVTN, 

S.  J.  Dederick, 

A.  C.  Ives, 

John  L.  Weinheimer, 

Carlton  Joy, 

William  IMcCorry, 

Joseph  Lennon. 


the  publication  department. 


(Tlie  Publisher  liimself 

Charles  A.  Tracy, 
WhjLiam  Barker, 
George  King, 
E.  T.  Watson, 
E.  H.  Jenny, 
William  DA\^s, 

N.  TUTTLE, 

L.  C.  Palmer, 
George  M.  King, 

E.  W.  Sinclair, 
R.  Dr  Wardener, 

F.  A.  Wheeler. 


was  with  the  Family  Mourners.) 

C.  A.  Davis, 
T.  L.  McElrath, 
Joseph  Patterson, 
David  Watson, 
S.  Sinclair,  Jr., 
Edward  Clarke, 
James  G.  Cooper, 
P.  Campbell, 
John  Mackie, 
John  Manning, 
J.  H.  Dennison, 


THE   CLOSING   CEEEMONIES. 


161 


THE  COMPOSING 

Thomas  N.  Rookek, 
Samuel  "Walters, 
d.  s.  bookstaver, 

jAjrES  N.  BOOKSTATER, 

E.  H.  Van  Hoesen, 
A.  J.  Leader, 

J.  D.  BROilELL, 

Thomas  Burke, 
Myron  Jupp, 
j.  c.  eobinson, 
Frank  Cahill, 
Anna  M.  Hoyt, 

E.  Wright, 
M.  O'Brien, 

T.  G.  Nottage, 

A.  Vanderwerkeb, 

F.  H.  Hopkins, 
W.  A.  Dodge, 
Hunter  Bradford, 
William  C.  Fallon 
F.  O.  Flood, 

A.  A.  Bush, 
Samuel  Rutan, 
N.  Fenstermakeb, 


AND  proof  rooms. 

George  S.  Miles, 
William  M.  Newman, 
Henry  Barns, 
James  S.  Garrety, 
William  S.  Barron, 
Willlam  O'Connor, 
George  T.  Hayward, 
David  A.  Cooke, 
John  F.  Ropes, 
Marion  Meredith, 
Charles  R.  Pitt, 
E.  Clissold, 
J.  B.  McAlister, 
George  Shearman, 
Thomas  Wiley, 
John  Tobest, 
G.  H.  Ackekman, 
T.  J.  Sharratt, 
Robert  M.  RcfSE, 

W.  E.  RUGG, 

John  Murphy, 
William  H.  Bourne, 
Frank  Ferris, 
Charles  Ruland,  Jr. 


the 
Phil.  A.  Fitzpatrick, 
P.  O'Rourke, 

P.  NULTY, 

John  Rickert, 
Owen  Sheridan, 
Ed.  Sheridan, 
P.  Dougherty, 
James  Moran, 
Thomas  Britten, 
William  McIntyre 
Robert  Connelly, 
James  Fitzsimons, 
Chas.  Gilmartin, 
James  Gilmartin, 
J.  Cassens, 
P.  Collins, 
Jas.  Collins, 
B.  Riley, 
John  Berry, 
M.  Bekby, 


press  room. 


11 


W.  Wilkenson, 
John  Thornton, 
William  Cleary, 
John  Sheridan, 

B.  Marsterson, 
A.  McCrodden, 
James  Nulty, 
M.  Croften, 

J.  Sullivan, 
Joseph  Hughes, 
f.  conklin, 
t.  sculley, 
J.  Maher, 
James  McIntyre, 
E.  Fitzsimons, 
M.  Keatley, 
J.  Hurley, 
J.  Malone, 
T.  Moran, 

C.  Rellet, 


162  MEMORIAL   OF  HORACE  GREELEY. 

James  Bekrt,  T.  Sdxlivan, 

31.  Gannon,  M.  Sullivan, 

Thomas  Leonard,  Willlvm  Moran. 

the  mail  department. 

Charles  Fitzpatrick,  M.  Donohue, 

James  Wynne,  Philip  Griffith, 

John  Quinn,  John  Murphy, 

John  JMurray,  J.  McKay, 

John  IIonley,  James  Cle^vry, 

E.  Xulty,  J.  McCarty, 

H.  Connor,  J.  McCoy, 

E.  ElDDLE,  J.  GaLLIGAR. 

Representatives  of  the  Xew  York  Associated  Press,  the  Ameri- 
can Press  Association,  and  the  various  journals  of  this  and  other 
cities,  brought  up  the  rear.  It  was  only  a  walk  of  half  a  block  to 
the  church,  and  the  procession  moved  solemnly  afoot  through  the 
throng.  As  the  coffin  was  carried  up  the  aisle  and  deposited  in 
front  of  the  pulpit,  a  solemn  voluntary  pealed  fi-om  the  organ,  and 
the  people,  who  for  more  than  an  hour  had  filled  every  inch  of 
space  except  the  reserved  pews  in  the  center  of  the  church,  rose 
reverently  to  their  feet.  In  the  pulpit,  besides  Dr.  Chapin,  were 
the  Rev.  Henry  Ward  Beecher,  Dr.  Edward  Beecher,  the  Rev.  J. 
]M.  Pullman,  of  the  Thirty-fifth  Street  Universalist  Church,  and 
Prof.  Roswell  D.  Hitchcock,  of  the  Union  Theological  Seminary. 
The  transverse  pews  on  the  south  side  of  the  church  were  reserved 
for  the  most  important  of  the  invited  guests.  President  Grant  sat 
there,  impassive  as  usual,  the  object  of  many  curious  eyes,  and  of 
many  grateful  feelings  for  the  sentiment  which  prompted  his  attend- 
ance. Vice-President  Colfax,  the  Hon.  Henry  Wilson,  Vice-Presi- 
dent elect,  and  General  Belknap,  Secretary  of  War,  were  on  his 
right.  Governor  Iloftman  and  his  staff"  were  on  the  left.  The 
United  States  Minister  to  France,  Mr.  Washburne,  was  there  also. 
Senator  Fenton,  as  one  of  the  pall-bearers,  occupied  a  pew  in  the 
middle  aisle.  The  Governors  of  New  Jersey  and  Connecticut  were 
present  with  their  suites.  General  Babcock  was  in  attendance  on 
the  President.  Senator  Schurz  sat  in  one  of  the  front  pews  with 
Mr.  INIanton  Marble.  Mayor  Hall  personally  supervised  many  of 
the  police  arrangements.  The  Mayors  of  many  other  cities ;  the 
Common  Council  of  New  York  with  their  official  staves  and  badges; 
the  delegates  from  various  clubs  and  associations ;  the  long  pro- 
cession  of  editors,   reporters,  clerks,   compositors,   pressmen,   and 


THE   CLOSIIS^G   CEEEMOITIES.  163 

Other  persons  from  The  Tribune  establishment ;  the  Herald  Club ; 
the  reporters  of  various  city  journals  and  the  journalists  from  other 
places,  were  more  than  enough  to  fill  all  the  remaining  seats  and  to 
crowd  the  aisles. 

It  was  about  11:30  when  all  were  placed,  and  the  services  be- 
gan with  the  performance  of  Chopin's  Funeral  March  by  Dr.  Wil- 
liam Berge,  under  whose  direction  the  music  of  the  day  was  given. 
Then  the  quartet  choir  of  the  Church  of  St.  Francis  Xavier  chanted 
the  "  De  Profundis,"  and  Dr.  Chapin  read  a  selection  from  the  Holy 
Scriptures.  There  was  a  pause  for  a  moment  before  the  organ  was 
heard  again,  and  a  sweet  and  ringing  voice  broke  out  in  the  grand 
song  of  faith,  and  tenderness,  and  triiimph,  "  I  know  that  my  Re- 
deemer liveth."  It  was  Miss  Kellogg,  who  paid  this  last  touching 
tribute  to  one  whom  she  had  long  known  as  a  dear  personal  friend. 
Only  those  who  were  most  intimate  with  Mr.  Greeley  knew  in  how 
many  unexpected  directions  his  sympathies  extended.  "  Man  of 
war  "  as  he  was,  he  had  conceived  a  strong  regard  for  this  estimable 
lady ;  he  spoke  of  her  often  in  warm  terms  of  praise ;  and  during 
his  sickness,  only  a  little  while  before  he  died,  talking  of  remark- 
able women  whom  he  had  known,  he  mentioned  especially  two  of 
whom  his  opinion  was  very  high :  these  were  Margaret  Fuller  and 
Clara  Louise  Kellogg.  It  was  no  mere  artistic  sentiment,  therefore, 
Avhich  Miss  Kellogg  threw  into  the  divine  song  which  she  poured 
upon  the  ears  of  that  great  audience  yesterday.  There  was  grief, 
we  are  sure,  at  her  heart,  for  there  were  tears  in  her  voice.  "When 
she  ceased  a  sense  of  inexpressible  tenderness  seemed  diffused  over 
the  whole  house.  Mr.  Beecher's  address  was  in  full  accord  with  the 
emotions  of  his  hearers.  It  was  gentle  alike  in  tone  and  sentiment. 
It  was  mournful  as  the  speech  of  a  man  who  bore  a  heavy  burden 
at  his  heart.  It  was  j^athetic,  as  if  haunted  by  the  tragedy  of  that 
strange  death,  under  circumstances  so  afflicting  ;  but  it  breathed 
sweet  consolation,  and  taught  an  important  lesson.  Of  the  elo- 
quence for  which  he  is  so  popularly  esteemed,  Mr.  Beecher  gave  in 
this  brief  ten  minutes'  speech  no  great  display.  He  had  not  come 
there  to  be  eloquent ;  but  to  throw  his  tribute  at  the  feet  of  his 
departed  friend  and  give  voice  to  the  half-formed  thoughts  which 
the  presence  of  so  many  once  bitter  adversaries  around  that  coffin 
must  have  suggested  to  iis  all.  He  touched  upon  the  animosities 
now  forgotten,  the  rivalries  hushed,  the  calumnies  repented  of;  but 
he  did  it  with  grace  and  tact.     "  Oh !  men,"  he   cried,  "  is  there 


1C4  MEMORIAL   OF   HORACE   GREELEY. 

nothing  for  you  to  do — yon  who  -with  uplifted  hands  a  few  short 
weeks  ago  were  doing  such  battle  ?  Think  of  those  conflicts  in 
which  you  forgot  charity,  kindliness,  goodness !  What  do  you 
think  of  them  now  !"  If  there  were  any  in  that  church  who  cher- 
ished still  the  hatreds  of  the  campaign,  who  waited  only  for  the 
public  sorrow  to  subside  that  they  might  fly  once  more  at  one  ano- 
ther's throats,  they  must  have  reddened  with  shame  at  the  gentle 
words  which,  in  a  low  and  solemn  voice,  Mr.  Beecher  uttered  in  the 
concluding  portion  of  his  address. 

After  another  chant,  "  Sleep  thy  last  Sleep,"  by  Mr.  Berge's 
choir  (Miss  T.  Werneke,  Miss  M.  "Werneke,  and  Mr.  Trost),  Dr. 
Chapin  delivered  a  discourse  upon  the  character  of  Mr.  Greeley,  the 
precepts  of  his  life,  and  the  lesson  of  Christian  faith  and  hope  taught 
by  his  closing  hours.  He,  too,  alluded  with  deep  feeling  to  the  war- 
fare which  has  just  ended ;  and  when  he  referred  indirectly  to  the 
presence  of  Gen.  Grant  as  a  sign  of  kinder  and  juster  sentiments 
hereafter,  there  was  a  faint  attempt  at  applause,  which,  however, 
was  instantly  suppressed.    We  subjoin  a  full  report  of  both  addresses. 

ADDRESS  or  HEXKY  WARD  BEECHER. 

There  is  no  one  that  dies  whose  death  is  not  momentous,  if  we 
but  behold  it  as  God's  angels  do  ;  and  yet  when  men  have  filled  the 
household  with  their  presence,  and  society  has  been  made  a  bene- 
ficiary by  their  kindnesses  and  by  their  wisdom,  death  becomes  still 
more  momentous.  Every  day  hundreds  and  hundreds  are  borne 
through  your  streets  and  laid  away  to  sleep  in  yonder'  Greenwood, 
leaving  behind  them  sorrow  and  tears,  and  many  reverent  thoughts ; 
and  yet  of  all  that  have  passed  through  on  their  way  to  their  long 
home,  no  one,  I  think,  has  gone,  or  for  a  long  time  will  go,  bearing 
with  him  so  many  sympathies,  so  much  kindness,  so  many  tender 
recollections,  so  much  that  should  be  instructive,  as  he  who  lies 
here  before  us. 

Who  is  this  man,  bearing  upon  him  all  the  civic  honors  that  the 
land  could  give  him '?  Who  is  this  man  ?  One  whose  wealtli  has 
made  him  a  prince  in  benevolence  ?  He  was  not  rich  in  living,  nor 
in  dying  rich.  Who  is  this  man  ?  Some  one  gifted  with  all  kind- 
ness of  heart  and  singular  tact  of  administration,  that  sliould  make 
every  one  his  friend  who  came  near  him  ?  But  he  was  a  man  of  war, 
who  for  thirty  years  has  filled  the  land  Avith  the  racket  of  various 
controversies  ;  and  yet  to-day,  without  oflice,  without  title,  without 


THE  CLOSING   CEREMONIES.  165 

place  except  that  of  the  htimblest  citizen,  the  Government  itself 
stands  still,  and  the  honored  representative  and  Chief  Magistrate  of 
this  great  people  is  here  to  bow  his  head  in  unfeigned  sympathy. 
Here  are  also  heads  of  Departments,  and  men  of  every  style  of 
thought ;  here  are  men  who  have  scarcely  yet  laid  down  the  bow 
from  which  the  last  arrow  has  been  shot — all  gathered  to-day  by 
one  impulse — the  business  of  the  street  almost  stopped  ;  private 
dwellings  showing  the  significant  tokens  of  their  sorrow — all  gath- 
ered in  genuine  sympathy  around  about  this  man  who  can  speak 
no  more,  walk  in  our  jDresence  no  more,  but  has  gone  out  from  us 
forever. 

Is  it  that  death  has  made  us  forget  all  our  differences  ?  We  have 
not  forgotten  them.  Is  it  that  strained  courtesy  that  lays  aside  criti- 
cism in  the  presence  of  death  as  something  too  august  for  man  to 
trifle  with  ?  But  we  differ  to-day  as  much  in  theory,  as  much  in 
philosophy,  in  the  best  methods  of  policy,  as  we  did  a  month  ago. 
A  month  asfo  the  whole  land  was  full  of  clamor.  A  little  while  asro 
men  were  in  fierce  battle.  There  has  been  no  change  in  it ;  and  yet 
he  who  was  the  chief  mark  on  one  side  lies  before  you  ;  and  you  press 
around  him  in  tears  to-day  to  do  him  reverence.  It  is  because  the 
man  is  more  than  a  professional  man ;  not  the  candidate,  not  the 
editor.  The  man  that  lay  under  them  all,  is  honored  and  honora- 
ble. And  when  the  conflicts  of  life  intermit  for  a  moment,  and  you 
can  take  ofl'  your  harness,  and  look  into  that  which  belongs  to  your 
essential  manhood,  you  do  revere  him  and  love  him.  And  since  the 
circumstances  of  his  going  were  so  wonderfully  dramatic,  since  stroke 
after  stroke  resounded  through  the  laud  to  make  his  death  one 
which  in  every  feature  is  calculated  most  deeply  to  affect  all,  you 
are  brought  together  to  express  here  your  honor  and  your  rever- 
ence for  Horace  Greeley. 

It  is  given  to  but  very  few  men,  the  Divine  Jesus  chiefly,  and  in 
lesser  measure  to  Plato,  so  to  think  that  their  thoughts  go  on  as  insti- 
tutions, working  down  through  the  generations.  Such  men  are  the 
masters  of  men  and  the  masters  of  minds,  and  they  are  but  few.  Most 
men  are  great  by  their  circumstances,  and  great  by  the  exertions  of 
powers  which  have  an  application  by  reason  of  transient  circum- 
stances; there  are  others  who  are  great  because  they  have  fertile 
lives,  and  it  is  permitted  them  to  mingle  their  lives  with  the  lives  of 
others.  This  has  been  done  by  him  who  can  write  no  more  and  speak 
no  more.     For  thirty  years  he  has  builded  for  himself  no  outward 


166  MEMOEIAL   OF   IIOKACE    GREELEY. 

monument,  no  long  line  of  literary  efforts,  no  mansion,  no  estate; 
but  for  thirty  years  that  heart  that  meant  well  by  every  human  being 
has  been  beating,  beating,  and  giving  some  drops  of  its  blood  to 
countless  multitudes,  until  to-day,  between  the  two  oceans,  there  is 
hardly  an  intelligent  man  or  child  that  does  not  feel  the  influence 
of  the  life  of  Horace  Greeley.  He  is  lost  in  his  individuality,  but  his 
work  is  as  great  as  the  character  and  the  currents  and  the  tenden- 
cies of  this  great  American  people. 

And  now  what  matters  it,  in  your  present  thought,  that  in  polit- 
ical economy  he  was  on  one  side  and  you  were  on  the  other ;  that  in 
the  party  divisions  of  life  he  was  on  one  side  and  you  were  on  the 
other  ?  That  Avhich  at  this  hour  beseems  you,  and  that  which  is  in 
accordance  with  every  man's  feeling  to-day,  is  this  :  Horace  Gree- 
ley gave  the  strength  of  his  life  to  education,  to  honest  industry,  to 
humanity,  especially  toward  the  j^oor  and  the  unfriended.  He  was 
feet  for  the  lame ;  he  was  tongue  for  the  dumb  ;  he  was  an  eye  for 
the  blind,  and  had  a  heart  for  those  who  had  none  to  sympathize 
with  them.  His  nature  longed  for  more  love  than  it  had,  and 
more  sympathy  than  was  ever  administered  to  it.  The  great  heart 
■working  through  life  fell  at  last.  He  had  poured  his  life  out  for 
thirty  years  into  the  life  of  his  time.  It  has  been  for  intelligence, 
for  industry,  for  an  honester  life  and  a  nobler  manhood  ;  and,  though 
he  may  not  be  remembered  by  those  memorials  which  carry  other 
men's  names  down,  his  deeds  will  be  known  and  felt  to  the  latest 
generations  in  our  land. 

The  husbandman  reaps  his  wheat  and  it  is  threshed,  and  the 
Btraw  goes  back  again  to  the  ground  and  the  chaff.  It  matters  not 
how  much  or  how  little  wheat  is  garnered.  Even  that  perishes. 
Some  of  it  goes  to  seed  again  and  into  the  ground ;  more  of  it  be- 
comes the  farmer  himself.  He  holds  the  plow  with  his  hand ;  he 
gathers  in  again  other  harvests  with  his  skill ;  he  becomes  the  man. 
It  is  no  longer  wheat ;  it  is  the  man.  The  harvest  has  been  gar- 
nered, and  it  reappears  in  the  school-boy,  the  pioneer  settler  in  the 
distant  West,  in  the  young,  thriving  men  of  our  cities  and  towns. 
To  these  men  Horace  Greeley's  life  has  gone  out.  He  has  been  a 
national  benefactor,  and  to-day  we  bear  testimony  to  these  under 
virtues  which  made  his  life  conspicuous.  We  were  attracted  so 
much  to  the  politics  of  the  time  that  we  gave  no  notice  to  those 
nobler  under  qualities  of  true  manhood  in  him;  but  to-day  we  think 
better.     To-day  Ave  are  all   speaking  kindly  of  him  —  sorrowfully. 


THE   CL03IXG   CEREMOl^IES.  167 

To-day  we  are  asking  -vvliat  things  there  may  he  said  of  him,  and 
what  we  may  add  to  praise  him  fau'ly  and  justly. 

Oh !  men,  is  there  nothing  for  you  to  do — you  who  with  uplifted 
hands  a  few  short  weeks  ago  were  doing  such  battle  ?  Look  at 
what  you  were  then,  and  what  you  are  now.  Are  there  no  lessons 
to  be  learned,  no  corrections  to  be  made  ?  Think  of  those  conflicts, 
in  which  you  forgot  charity,  kindliness,  goodness !  Think  of  those 
fierce  battles,  almost  unto  blood — in  just  such  you  have  mingled, 
out  of  just  such  you  have  come.  What  do  you  think  of  them  now  ? 
Look  here  at  all  that  remains  of  this  man.  Did  you  not  magnify 
the  differences  ?  Did  you  not  give  yourselves  to  your  malign  pas- 
sions, and  too  little  to  justice  and  divine  charity  ?  As  you  stand 
to-day  it  is  not  enough  that  you  should  mourn  with  those  that 
mourn.  It  is  wise  that  you  should  carry  back  with  you  a  tempered 
and  kinder  and  chastened  feeling. 

At  last,  at  last !  he  rests  as  one  that  has  been  driven  through  a 
long  voyage  by  storms  that  would  not  abate,  but  reaches  the  shore 
and  stands  upon  the  firm  earth ;  sees  again  the  shady  trees  and  the 
green  fields,  and  the  beaming  sun.  So  he,  through  a  long  and  not 
untempestuous  voyage,  has  reached  the  shore  and  is  at  rest.  Oh ! 
how  sweet  the  way  that  leads  to  the  grave,  when  that  grave  is  God's 
golden  gate  to  immortality !  How  blessed  are  the  dead  that  die  in 
the  Lord !  God  gi'ant  that,  in  the  solemnity  of  these  thoughts  in 
which  we  have  gathered  to-day,  it  may  be  ours  so  to  live  that  when 
we  die  angels  shall  oj^en  the  gate  and  receive  us  into  the  joy  and 
glory  of  our  Lord. 

ADDRESS    OF    DR.    E.    H.    CHAPIif. 

One  month  ago,  many  of  us  now  present  met  in  this  place  to 
express  our  sympathy  with  one  who  sat  with  pallid  face  and  quiv- 
ering Ups,  a  heart-stricken  mourner  for  his  wife.  To-day,  as  in  the 
freshness  of  his  great  sorrow  himself  wished,  he  is  to  be  by  her  side. 
The  shadow  of  death,  through  which  he  was  then  passing,  has  en- 
folded him  utterly.  Such  is  the  Providence  that  checks  all  human 
purposes  and  makes  life  a  continual  surprise  !  And  now,  as  I  stand 
here  to  discharge  no  mere  professional  function,  to  do  that  which  I 
feel  is  no  more  imperative  for  me  as  a  pastor  than  as  a  personal 
friend,  I  still  must  beg  leave  to  limit  myself  quite  closely  to  the 
offices  of  the  hour.  I  can  not  attempt  here  and  now  to  unfold  the 
life  or  estimate  the  worth  of  Horace  Greeley.     Such  an  attemjit 


1G8  MEMORIAL   OF  IIOEACE   GEEELEY. 

would  on  one  hand  be  premature,  and  on  the  other  hand  be  unneces- 
sary. Premature,  because  the  traits  and  lessons  of  a  great  life  can 
best  be  summed  up  and  fixed  in  history  in  calmer  moments,  when 
the  first  vibrations  of  grief  and  excitement  have  ceased.  This  work 
ought  to  be  done,  and  I  trust  will  be  done  in  the  utterances  of  pub- 
lic memorial  service,  which  will  deserve  and  receive  a  much  wider 
hearing  than  I  can  claim.  On  the  other  hand,  this  work  of  appreci- 
ation is  unnecessary ;  it  has  already  been  done.  There  have  been 
but  few  instances  in  our  history  when  the  salient  points  of  a  man's 
character  have  been  so  instinctively  apprehended  ;  but  very  few  in- 
stances when  the  expressions  of  regret  and  regard  have  been  so 
spontaneous,  so  wide-spread,  and  so  similar. 

The  record  of  Mr.  Greeley's  life,  like  his  person,  was  known 
everywhere.  'These  eulogies  that  pour  in  so  thick  and  fast  from 
every  quarter  of  the  land  are  not  made  up  with  artificial  rhetoric. 
They  are  genuine.  Those  tears,  as  freely  shed  to-day  by  country 
fireside,  and  in  distant  States  as  under  the  shadowing  drapery  of 
these  walls,  are  not  conventional  tears.  They  are  no  official  sym- 
bols of  mourning  that  hang  around  us ;  they  represent  the  people's 
thought,  and  are  twined  about  the  people's  heart.  A  career  of  hon- 
est purpose  and  beneficent  tendencies  vindicates  itself  under  ail  tran- 
sient misconception.  Where  to-day  are  our  party  badges  and  polit- 
ical distinctions  ?  They  coil  to  ashes !  Where  in  the  reverent 
sadness  of  this  hour  are  difierences  of  creed?  They  melt  away  in 
the  broad  light  of  Christian  recognition  that  testifies  to  a  true  man's 
life  and  arches  over  a  good  man's  grave.  All  this,  then,  I  say,  indi- 
cates an  instructive  appreciation  of  character  that  could  not  be  made 
more  distinct  by  any  labored  analysis. 

AX    IXWROUGHT    LOVE    OF    HUMAXITY. 

And  now,  ray  friends,  as  one  lesson  adapted  to  this  place  and 
this  hour,  I  ask  you  before  the  face  of  the  dead  to  consider  for  a 
moment  or  two  what  it  was  to  which  this  affectionate  remembrance 
attaches,  and  which  draws  this  spontaneous  regard.  It  was  not 
mere  intellectual  ability,  large  and  undeniable  as  it  was  in  the  pres- 
ent instance.  It  was  not  official  station.  Mr.  Greeley  held  no  offi- 
cial station.  The  will  of  the  people,  expressed  through  its  Electoral 
College,  to-day  decreed  that  he  sliould  hold  no  such  station.  To-day 
the  Will  of  God  elects  him  to  a  place  from  Avhich  all  human  honors 
look  small  and  dim.     Ko,  my  friends,  the  attraction  in  this  instance 


THE   CLOSING  CEREMONIES.  169 

is  the  magnetism  of  simple  goodness.  I  need  not  say  that  Mr, 
Greeley's  heart  was  as  large  as  his  brain — that  love  for  humanity 
was  an  inwrought  element  of  his  nature.  This  was  so  complete,  so 
broad  in  him,  that  it  touched  all  sides  of  humanity,  so  to  speak.  It 
was  manifest  in  a  kindness  and  regard  that  keep  their  silent  record 
in  many  private  hearts ;  in  a  hand  ever  open  and  ready  to  help ;  in 
one  of  the  kindest  faces  ever  worn  by  man,  the  expression  of  which 

was 

"  A  meeting  of  gentle  lights  without  a  name." 

The  hundreds  of  poor,  toil-worn  men  who  yesterday  passed 
through  the  crowd  to  take  a  last  look  at  that  worn  countenance 
were  moved  by  no  idle  curiosity.  They  went  there,  not  merely  to 
gaze  at  the  face  of  a  great  journalist  and  a  famous  politician ;  they 
were  drawn  by  the  conviction  that  he  was  the  poor  man's  friend, 
the  sympathetic  champion  of  working-men,  who  had  struggled 
through  their  experiences  and  never  forgotten  their  claims.  Mr. 
Greeley's  public  action  was  directed  by  the  same  impulse.  It  was 
the  motive  power  of  his  entire  efforts,  his  almost  unprecedented 
work  for  so  many  years  and  in  so  many  ways.  It  enlisted  him  in 
the  service  of  every  humane  cause.  Not  only  did  it  inspire  his  life- 
long war  with  oppression,  and  evil  and  meanness  of  every  sort — it 
made  him  exceptionally  generous  and  tolerant.  Some  may  think 
that  he  erred  on  the  side  of  mercy  against  justice.  Perhaps  so ;  but 
if  we  must  err  at  all,  that  is  a  good  side  to  err  on.  A  sweet  dispo- 
sition may  hold  even  an  error  in  harmless  solution,  while  there  is  a 
precision  that  is  as  sour  as  it  is  sound.  But  let  it  be  remembered 
that  often  mercy  is  the  synonym  of  justice.  Another  danger  attend- 
ant upon  such  a  spirit  is  credulity — too  much  readiness  to  believe 
the  most  and  to  believe  the  best.  But  this  human  nature  of  ours 
which,  discipline  it  as  we  may,  will  still  be  fallible,  is  full  as  likely 
to  be  wise  at  this  extreme  as  at  the  other.  Truth  is  better  than 
fiction.  Nevertheless,  if  the  disparaging  estimate  of  humanity  is  the 
true  one,  then  fiction  is  better  than  fact.  The  doctrine  of  a  trust  in 
man,  however  qualified  by  painful  experiences,  is  necessary  as  the 
inspiration  to  all  noble  effort,  and  for  any  content  of  mind,  for  the 
working  machinery  of  life,  and  for  every  fiber  of  the  social  organism. 
Do  you  tell  us  that  there  is  no  substance  in  human  virtue  ? — that  all 
honesty  is  marketable,  and  all  love  a  selfish  mask? — that  in  this 
world  there  are  no  loyal  friendships,  no  unpurchased  benefits,  no 
faithful  hearts,  no  incorruptible  souls  ?     Is  all  that  sentimental  illu- 


170  MEMOKIAL   OF   HORACE    GREELEY. 

sion?    Then,  I  say,  let  us  be  cheated  by  that  illusion,  always  shut- 
ting out  minor  truths,  and  deceiving  us  even  to  the  grave. 

A   LESSON   FOE   US   ALL. 

"Whatever  may  have  been  the  mistakes  of  him  who  lies  dead 
before  us,  there  was  no  mistake  iu  the  main  current  of  that  principle 
which  inspired  his  labors  and  characterized  his  life.  And  heie,  I 
repeat,  is  a  lesson  for  us  all.  In  trying  to  do  the  work  of  life,  one 
may  be  discouraged  by  instances  of  conspicuous  greatness,  —  at 
least  greatness  that  expresses  intellectual  power  and  achieves  splen- 
did success.  It  may  seem  to  us  that  because  we  can  not  do  great 
things,  we  can  do  nothing  that  is  of  worth,  and  that  it  matters  little 
what  we  do.  But  goodness  is  richer  than  greatness.  It  lifts  us 
nearer  to  God  than  any  intellectual  elevation,  and,  moreover,  it  is 
accessible  for  the  humblest  life.  I  do  not  say  that  all  duty,  that  all 
religion  is  ex^jressed  in  love  for  man — though  we  have  ample  Avar- 
rant  for  belief  that  all  the  law  is  fulfilled  in  this  one  word,  "  Thou 
shalt  love  thy  neighbor  as  thyself"  The  love  of  God,  hoAvever,  is 
the  spring  of,  and  kindles  and  nourishes  love  to  man.  But  how  is 
the  love  of  God  to  be  manifested  ?  It  is  to  be  manfested  according 
to  our  abilities,  within  our  sphere,  whether  broad  or  narrow,  and 
every  day  I  bless  God  that  the  great  necessary  work  of  the  world  is 
so  faithfully  carried  on  by  humble  men  in  narrow  spaces  and  by 
faithful  women  in  narrow  circles,  true  to  the  impulse  of  the  divine 
love  within  them,  perfornung  works  of  simple  goodness.  And  so 
Ave  are  encouraged,  not  discouraged,  when  the  greatness  Avliich  the 
world  confesses  is  the  greatness  of  goodness,  because  that,  unlike 
intellectual  power,  is  a  communicable  power  for  the  goodness  of  the 
comnuiuity.  Therefore,  from  the  cup  of  our  sorroAV  here  to-day  Ave 
may  di'ink  inspiration  for  our  best  endeavors,  Avhile  we  are  thank- 
ful for  the  achievement  that  in  this  instance  Avas  so  large  and  so 
etfective. 

To  men  of  diffei'ent  poAver  different  kinds  of  Avoi-k  are  assigned. 
Some  are  discoverers  of  truth  ;  some  are  vehicles  of  inspiration ; 
some  are  iuA'entors  of  instruments  ;  some  are  builders  of  states. 
But  truly  has  it  been  said  that  the  philanthropists,  in  the  measure 
of  their  Avisdom  and  their  purity  of  zeal,  are  the  real  "fellow- work- 
men of  the  Most  High."  Other  agents  explore  God's  works  and 
illustrate  this  truth.  But  this  is  of  little  value  save  as  it  diffuses 
His  blessedness  and  confesses  His  help.     Therefore,  they  who  by 


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earnest  effort  against  evil,  by  indignant  rebuke  of  wrong,  by  stead- 
fast advocacy  of  truth,  justice,  and  freedom,  work  beneficently  for 
man,  most  truly  work  for  God  and  work  with  God.  How  faithfully, 
how  effectively  he,  for  whom  we  hold  these  solemnities  to-day, 
wrought  his  work  to  those  ends  it  is  superfluous  for  me  to  show. 
He  enlisted  in  that  war  from  which  there  is  no  discharge.  He  con- 
tended against  what  he  believed  to  be  wrong — inspired  not  less  by 
the  goodness  of  his  heart  than  by  the  strength  of  his  mind.  He 
struck  for  what  he  believed  to  be  right  until  mind  and  heart  gave 
way,  and,  marked  by  scars  and  honors,  he  lies  dead  upon  the  field. 

A    LIFE    OF    PEACTICAL    GOODNESS. 

Permit  me  still  further  to  say — as  unfolding,  also,  in  this  hour, 
its  practical  lesson  for  ourselves — that  Mr.  Greeley's  work  in  life 
was  eminently  practical  work ;  his  goodness  was  no  mere  senti- 
ment; for  him  it  was  an  organic  force.  There  are  those,  also,  who 
regarded  him  as  Avhat  they  call  a  "  visionary  man."  For  my  j^art, 
I  am  thankful  for  all  such  visions  as  rest  upon  such  solid  ground  of 
usefulness  and  precipitate  such  concrete  results.  No  man,  it  seems 
to  me,  was  less  given  to  mere  idle  speculation  by  speech  or  pen,  or 
used  more  telling  words  to  tangible  effects.  How  wide,  how  mani- 
fold was  the  circle  of  interests  which  he  touched !  How  close  to 
men's  homes  and  bosoms  the  convictions  which  he  wrought !  How 
many,  many  minds  has  he  instructed  with  j^ractical  wisdom !  How 
many  lives  had  he  stimulated  to  wholesome  energy  !  How  many 
young  men  gratefully  acknowledge  him  as  their  teacher  and  guide ! 
What  various  interests  of  arts  and  labor,  of  education  and  temper- 
ance, of  domestic  purity,  and  of  freedom  miss  him,  mourn  for  him 
to-day.  Wielding  with  so  much  power  the  mightiest  engine  of  the 
times — placed  in  the  editorial  chair,  which  in  our  day,  whether  for 
good  or  evil,  exercises  an  influence  greater  than  any  oflicial  seat  or 
throne  on  earth — it  is  no  light  thing  to  say  that,  however  strenu- 
ously, and  some  may  think  severely,  he  used  it  as  the  instrument  of 
his  own  thoughts  and  purposes — he  never  debased  it  as  a  stimulant 
of  impurity,  or  made  it  a  vehicle  of  a  single  social  wrong. 

His  work  was  wide  and  various — how  wide  and  how  various 
this  spectacle  here  to-day  bears  witness.  The  association  repre- 
sented here  are  of  all  opinions,  all  differences  of  pursuit.  They  are 
composed  of  men  who  disagreed  with  Mr,  Greeley  upon  many 
points,  yet  who  truthfully  claim  fellowship  with  him  uj^on  some  one 


172  MEMORIAL   OF  nOKACE   GREELEY. 

point,  and  spontaneously  honor  liis  memory.  All  these  testify  how 
closely  his  life  was  incorporated  with  the  practical  interests  of  men. 
At  least  they  testify  that  while  Horace  Greeley  had  many  antagon- 
ists, he  had  few,  if  any,  enemies.  May  I  not,  without  violating  any 
of  the  proprieties  of  this  occasion,  express  my  satisfaction  that  while 
all  political  issues,  as  it  were,  lie  sealed  within  those  inclosing  lids 
in  demonstration  of  the  truth  that  peace  has  victories  more  renowned 
than  war,  the  highest  representative  of  the  nation  joins  with  this 
national  testimony  in  honor  of  the  thinker,  the  worker,  the  patriot, 
and  the  man. 

Let  me  refer  to  one  more  lesson  of  the  hour,  and  I  will  relieve 
your  patience.  It  is  the  lesson  of  Horace  Gi'eeley's  life,  it  is  the 
lesson  of  his  death  ;  would  that  in  life  and  death  it  might  be  the 
lesson  illustrated  by  us  all— the  lesson  of  the  power,  sufficiency  of 
the  Christian  faith !  Far  be  it  from  me  to  take  advantage  of  this 
occasion,  which  has  assembled  men  of  different  creeds  and  differ- 
ent forms  of  worship,  to  urge  the  point  of  Mr.  Greeley's  sym- 
pathy with  those  interpretations  of  Christianity  which  usually  find 
expression  here.  Only  suffer  me  to  say,  however,  that  he  found  at 
least,  whatever  errors  may  be  mixed  with  his  view — he  found  in  it 
strength  to  live  and  strength  to  die  by.  But  it  is  a  grander  fact 
than  this  that  upon  the  essential  truth  of  Christianity,  the  truth 
which  all  believers  ti'ust  in,  Horace  Greeley  leaned  his  weary  head 
and  weary  heart  and  died.  Now,  my  friends,  not  because  it  is  my 
office,  not  because  it  is  a  professional  duty  that  I  should  speak  so,  do 
I  say  that  the  more  I  see,  the  longer  I  live,  the  more  I  believe  in 
every  fiber  of  my  heart  that  in  Christian  faith  alone  is  true  peace 
and  qviiet  in  our  life  and  in  our  death.  The  mere  intellect  may  find, 
satisfaction  in  speculation  concerning  God,  or  whether  there  be  any 
God  at  all,  or  in  scientific  excursions  through  the  universe.  In  the 
seeming  remote  prospects  of  our  own  dissolution  we  may  raise 
curious  queries  about  a  future  life ;  whether  this  still  old  form  which 
lies  before  us  is  itself  the  compact  substance,  the  finality  of  our  being, 
or  whether  from  this  motionless  frame  there  has  not  vanished  some 
thing  that  thought,  and  knew,  and  spoke,  and  lived,  and  evidently 
is  not  here. 

MR.  Greeley's  christian  faith. 

In  the  assumptions  of  our  modern  Avisdoni,  knowing  so  many 
things,  and  as  we  think  impartially,  we  may  criticise  tlie  claims  of 
the  ancient  Bible,  and  of  the  historical  Clirist ;  but  when  the  forces 


THE  CLOSING   CEREMONIES.  173 

of  nature  press  upon  the  life-springs  of  our  own  being,  and  we  want 
to  know  something  of  the  power  that  bears  us  up  and  carries  us 
along — when  the  lamp  of  our  conscious  being  flickers  in  the  advanc- 
ing darkness  of  the  grave,  and  the  question  rises  straight  before  us 
— "Is  this  the  end  of  all,  oris  there  something  more?"  oh!  when 
our  evil  habits  accuse  us,  and  our  false  lives  rebuke  us,  and  we  feel 
our  moral  weakness,  and  know  we  can  not  erett  ourselves,  then,  in  ■ 
deed,  does  it  come  to  us  as  a  joy  and  as  a  victory — the  truth  that 
was  uttered  by  Horace  Greeley — "  I  know  that  my  Redeemer  liveth." 
Job  was  a  great  sufferer.  Affliction  after  affliction  came  upon 
him  with  whirlwind  blast  and  lightning  stroke.  He  mourned  and 
wept,  and  looked  through  a  tumultuous  struggle  that  came  upon 
him ;  he  ended  with  the  peace  of  the  grave,  where  the  wicked  cease 
from  troubling  and  the  weary  are  at  rest ;  but  still,  through  and 
beyond  all,  he  recognized  this  truth,  that  there  was  to  him  a 
Helper,  a  Vindicator,  a  Redeemer,  and  that  was  his  strength  and  his 
victory.  Our  friend  and  brother  had  his  hour  of  desolation  and 
darkness.  Affliction  after  affliction  fell  upon  him,  and  he  longed  for 
rest.     No  doubt  he  breathed  the  spirit  of  the  simj)le  verse  : 

"  Life  is  the  torrid  clay 

Burned  by  the  wind  and  sun ; 
And  death  the  calm,  cool,  evening  hour 

When  the  weary  day  is  done." 

But  he  looked  through  and  beyond  this.  Those  were  the  tran- 
sient shadows,  and  I  thank  God  from  my  heart  and  from  my  soul, 
not  only  for  myself  but  for  all,  that,  when  all  earthly  good  was 
crumbling  like  scaffolding,  this  dying  man  was  so  strong  and  tri- 
umphant as  to  utter  from  his  soul  this  simple  sentence  that  is  writ- 
ten over  me. 

My  friends,  that  was  the  victory  of  Horace  Greeley's  life,  as  well 
as  the  lesson  of  his  death.  It  is  the  consolation  of  the  hour.  I  dare 
not  trust  myself  to  speak  to  those  smitten  hearts.  I  dare  not  trust 
words  to  convey  even  one  atom  of  human  sympathy,  for  they  would 
fail  me  before  those  who  have  thus  repeatedly  been  smitten.  There, 
there  is  your  consolation  !  "  I  know  that  my  Redeemer  liveth." 
And  now,  as  we  take  the  body  of  our  friend  and  brother,  and  bear 
it  to  its  final  rest,  from  these  walls  that  have  known  him  so  often, 
but  shall  know  him  no  more — now,  as  we  bend  over  him  with  these 
tears  that  will  not  be  restrained,  God  grant  that  this  may  be  our 
consolation. 


174  MEMORIAL   OF  HORACE   GREELEY. 

"Farewell,  dear  friend  I  farewell,  honored  associate!  farewell 
noble  champion  ! "  each  may  say,  speaking  for  some  great  interest 
and  aftection  of  his  life.  Farewell !  We  know  that  our  Redeemer 
liveth !  and  God  grant  that  we  may  know  it  in  that  final  hour, 
when,  like  him,  there  is  nothing  for  us  but  to  turn  to  God. 

PRAYER    BY    DR.    CIIAPIN. 

Almighty  and  ever-living  God :  Thou  art  our  strength  and  our 
defense,  our  very  present  help  in  time  of  trouble.  We  woiild  know 
Thee  in  our  happiest  hours  and  in  our  days  of  sorrow.  We  would 
commune  with  Thee  in  the  sunshine  of  life ;  but,  O  God,  since  the 
heavens  are  dark  and  the  storm  is  heavy,  when  all  we  love  and  trust 
and  honor  has  fiiiled,  to  whom  shall  Ave  look  and  where  shall  we  find 
consolation  but  in  the  living  God  and  Father  of  us  all  ?  We  thank 
Thee  to-day  for  that  blessed  revelation  of  Christ  which  has  made 
God  known,  and  which  has  lighted  up  the  uncertainty  of  nature 
with  the  assurance  of  a  Divine  love.  We  thank  Thee,  O  God, 
that  our  Redeemer  liveth,  and  we  pray  that  this  truth  may  be  a 
conscious  and  vital  truth  in  every  soul  and  every  heart.  Especially 
we  ask  that  Thou  wilt  draw  very  near  to  these  orphan  hearts,  these 
bereaved  souls,  and  assure  them  of  Thy  presence  and  Thy  help. 
Thou  art  the  Father  of  us  all;  and  may  they  trust  in  Thy  love  as 
in  a  mother's  or  father's  love.  May  they  take  hold  of  Thee  with  a 
firm  trust  and  peace  of  heart,  notwithstanding  the  waves  have  re- 
peatedly gone  over  them  and  the  great  floods  have  overwhelmed 
them.  Oh,  God !  be  Thou  to  them  as  the  shadow  of  a  great  rock 
in  a  weai-y  land.  Be  Thou  to  them  father  and  mother,  strength  and 
peace,  light  and  consolation.  May  they  be  able  to  say  "  The  cup 
Avliiel)  our  Father  hath  given  us,  shall  we  not  drink  of  it?"  It  is 
bitter  to  the  taste  and  cold  to  the  lips,  still  may  they  feel  that  the 
hand  of  Infinite  love,  even  like  the  nail-pierced  hand  of  Jesus,  pre- 
sents it  to  their  lips.  God  console  them,  as  Tliou  alone  canst,  with 
the  assurance  of  a  life  which  reaches  into  Christ ;  comfort  that 
aftlicted  circle  of  friends,  and  that  one  who  languishes  upon  a  bed 
of  sickness.  Give  them  the  consolation  of  Thy  Gospel,  May 
they  be  able  to  say,  "  The  Lord  gave,  and  the  Lord  taketh  away. 
Blessed  be  the  name  of  the  Lord!" — "I  know  that  my  Redeemer 
liveth." 

And  we  beseech  Thee  to  sanctify  this  event  wliich  touches  so  many 
hearts  and  covers  such  a  wide  circle  of  professional  associates  who 


THE   CLOSING   CEEEMONIES.  175 

battled  by  his  side ;  who  have  witnessed  his  labor,  honored  his  name, 
and  who  meet  to-day  in  genuine  grief  over  his  cold  remains.  Grant, 
O  God !  that  this  may  be  a  source  of  good  to  their  souls,  that  the 
consolations  of  Thy  truth  may  be  with  them,  and  the  suggestions  of 
Divine  faith  be  sufficient  for  them.  May  it  awaken  them  to  dili- 
gence, duty  in  the  high  and  responsible  station  to  which  they  may 
be  called ;  and  help  us  all  to  feel  that  we  must  work  while  the  day 
lasts,  for  the  night  cometh. 

Sanctify,  we  beseech  Thee,  this  event  unto  those  with  whom  the 
departed  has  taken  sweet  counsel ;  walking  with  them  to  the  house 
of  God.  Sanctify  it  unto  those  of  us  who  worship  here;  help  them 
in  the  remembrance  of  this  tender  moment  to  chei'ish  a  still  deeper 
trust  in  Thee.  Sanctify  this  event  to  the  poor  and  the  lowly ;  to  the 
laborer  and  the  freedman ;  all  who  have  been  touched  by  this  great 
influence,  or  have  felt  the  power  of  this  generous  life.  Sanctify 
it,  God,  to  this  great  nation,  that  there  may  be  a  true  monument 
in  the  hearts  of  the  people,  regarding  a  life  of  simple  earnest  good- 
ness ;  and,  O  God,  let  Thy  blessing  rest  upon  each  and  all  of  us 
gathered  here.  We  ask  Thy  benediction  for  the  President  of  the 
United  States,  and  all  associated  with  him  in  authority.  Give  unto 
them  wisdom  and  grace  that  they  may  be  faithful  to  the  high  re- 
sponsibilities which  they  are  compelled  to  assume,  and  serve  Thee  in 
the  stations  where  Thou  hast  appointed  them. 

We  pray  that  Thy  blessing  may  rest  upon  all  men  everywhere, 
the  sick,  the  lowly,  the  weak,  the  tempted,  the  dying ;  and  now,  O 
God !  in  the  midst  of  troubles  we  remember  mercy.  We  thank 
Thee  that  the  deceased  has  lived.  We  thank  Thee  for  all  the  bless- 
ings he  enjoyed  in  life.  We  thank  Thee  for  the  good  he  has  contri- 
buted to  others.  We  thank  Thee,  O  God !  for  the  glorious  Gospel 
of  Christ.  Let  Thy  blessing  rest  upon  what  remains  of  the  solemn 
services  of  this  occasion,  and  as  the  dust  is  committed  to  the  dust 
we  commend  to  Thee  the  soul.  When  all  is  over,  dwell  with  the 
sorrowing  hearts  that  must  sit  down  in  loneliness,  only  to  realize 
the  greatness  of  their  bereavement.  Help  us  truly  to  live,  triumph- 
antly to  die ;  and  finally  take  us  to  that  world  where  there  is  no  sin, 
no  sorrow,  no  separation,  redeemed  by  Him  who  plucked  the  sting 
from  death  and  robbed  the  grave  of  victory,  and  in  whose  name 
and  greatness  we  now  address  and  implore  Thee.     Amen. 

At  the  conclusion  of  Dr.  Chapin's  address,  Miss  T.  Werneke  sang 
Handel's  "Angels  ever  Bright  and  Fair;"  and  then  Dr.  Chapin, 


176  MEMORIAL   OF  nOEACE   GREELEY. 

after  explaining  the  order  in  which  the  people  were  to  leave  the 
church,  pronounced  the  benediction.  But  before  the  solemn  cere- 
monies ended  there  was  to  be  another  impressive  and  beautiful  exer- 
cise. Zundel's  hymn,  "  Beyond  the  Smiling  and  the  Weeping," 
revealed  the  noble  voice  of  Miss  Antoinette  Sterling.  She  sang 
with  a  degree  of  sentiment  that  was  little  less  than  grand,  and  an 
effect  which  she  certainly  has  never  surpassed.  Then,  while  the 
choir  chanted  "  What  is  Life  ?  "  the  mourners  prepared  to  take  their 
departure. 

FROM  THE  CnUKCH  TO  THE  CEMETEKY. 

In  leaving  the  church,  the  coffin,  attended  by  the  pall-bearers, 
was  carried  on  men's  shoulders  to  the  hearse.  The  daughters,  the 
other  relatives,  and  the  particular  friends  of  Mr.  Greeley  followed. 
Then  came  the  President  and  his  suite ;  next,  the  Governors  and 
their  suites;  next,  the  editors  and  other  attaches  of  The  Tribune. 
Under  the  direction  of  Superintendent  Kelso  the  long  procession 
was  soon  transferred  to  the  carriages,  and  at  1:15  the  i^ortege  moved 
in  the  following  order,  the  police  having  previously  cleared  the  road- 
way from  curb  to  curb  : 

Mounted  Police. 

Broadway  Squad. 

Superintendent  Kelso. 

Mayor  Hall. 

Inspectors  Dillvs  and  "Walling. 

Fourth  Precinct  Police,  Capt.  Ulhnan. 

One  Hundred  Members  of  the  Fire  Department,  under  command  of 

Engineer  Shay. 

The  Rev.  Dr.  Pullman,  officiating  clergyman  at  the  grave. 

The  Pall-Bearers  in  five  carriages. 

HEARSE. 

Itlisses  Ida  and  Gabrielle  Greeley  and  other  mourners  in  carnages. 
The  President  of  the  United  States,  Vice-President  Colfax,  and  Vice- 
President  elect  Henry  Wilson,  in  an  open  landau,  surrounded 
by  fifty  policemen,  as  a  guard  of  honor. 
Grovcrnor  IIolTman  and  Governors  of  adjoining  States. 
The  Tribune  Staff. 
Typographical  Society. 
Union  League  Club. 
Members  of  the  Common  Council. 
Heads  of  Departments. 
Distinguished  officials  from  adjoining  cities  in  carriages,  two  deep,  to  the 
number  of  eighty-five. 


THE   CLOSING   OEKEMONIES.  •  177 

Members  of  the  Liberal  Pvcpublican  General  Committee. 

Union  Republican  General  Committee. 

Tammany  Hall  General  Committee. 

Simon  Cameron  Association. 

Sons  of  Temperance. 

Delegations  from  the  Arcadian,  Lotos,  Farmers',  and  Rural  Clubs,  and 

American  Institute. 

Citizens  generally. 

About  one  hundred  and  twenty-five  carriages  were  in  line,  mov- 
ing two  abreast.  There  was  no  music  and  no  military  guard.  No 
banners  were  displayed ;  no  regalia  was  worn  except  by  a  very  few 
out  of  the  large  number  of  delegates  from  societies  who  walked 
before  tlie  procession  from  the  church  to  the  ferry.  Yet  a  more 
imposing  parade  has  rarely,  if  ever,  been  seen  in  our  streets.  In  the 
church,  a  great  majority  of  the  audience  was  composed  of  well- 
dressed  ladies,  who,  having  been  admitted  (by  ticket)  some  time 
before  the  gentlemen,  almost  wholly  filled  the  galleries,  and  occu- 
pied a  great  deal  of  the  space  on  the  floor  of  the  church.  In  the 
P'ifth  Avenue  tlie  crowd  upon  the  sidewalks  was  largely  composed 
of  the  same  class  of  people.  But  further  down  town  the  poor,  the 
working-people,  the  shopkeepers,  the  great  multitude  who  com- 
manded so  much  of  Mr.  Greeley's  sympathies,  and  have  been  such 
sincere  mourners  over  his  loss,  thronged  the  thoroughfare  and  made 
the  task  of  the  police  in  kee]Mng  the  roadway  open  no  easy  one, 
indeed.  Had  this  been  an  ordinary  holiday,  when  more  or  less  hil- 
arity prevails,  there  must  liave  been  much  greater  trouble  to  keep 
order.  But  the  people  were  disposed  to  quiet  and  decorum.  ]Many 
of  them  raised  their  hats  reverently  as  the  body  passed,  and  waved 
their  handkerchiefs  or  wafted  a  farewell  with  a  gesture  of  the  hand. 
In  several  instances  people  tried  to  throw  flowers  upon  the  hearse. 
In  fi'ont  of  Bogardus'  gallery  there  was  a  large  photograph  of  Mr. 
Greeley,  draped  iu  black  and  white;  and  it  was  noticed  that  num- 
bers of  the  crowd  uncovered  their  heads  as  they  passed  it.  The 
procession  moved  very  slowly.  It  was  two  o'clock  when  it  reached 
the  B^iftli  Avenue  Hotel,  There  was  no  stoppage  after  it  once  got 
fairly  started,  but  the  time  occupied  in  moving  from  the  church  to 
the  Battery  was  two  hours  and  a  quarter.  The  route  was  down  the 
Fifth  Avenue  to  Fourteenth  Street,  through  Fourteenth  Street  to 
Broadway,  and  down  Broadway  to  the  Bowling  Green,  where  the 
line  divided,  one  half  going  through  Whitehall  Street  and  the 
other  through  State  Street,  meeting  at  the  ferry.     The  bells  of  St. 

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178  MEMORIAL   OF  HORACE  GREELEY. 

Paul's  and  Trinity  were  tolled  as  the  procession  passed.  The  car- 
riage containing  the  President  turned  oiF  at  Beaver  Street,  and  was 
driven  rapidly  up  town.  Many  others  left  the  procession  at  the 
ferry.  The  police,  the  firemen,  the  societies  on  foot,  all  abandoned 
it  here.  Forty  or  fifty  coaches,  containing  the  pall-bearers,  the  fam- 
ily, and  particular  friends,  a  large  number  of  The  Tribune  employes, 
and  other  persons,  kept  on  to  the  Cemetery. 

AT    GREENWOOD. 

It  was  nearly  dusk  when  the  cortege  reached  the  Cemetery  and 
drew  up  near  Mr.  Greeley's  vault  on  Locust  Hill,  whither  only  a 
month  ago  he  had  followed  the  coffin  of  his  wife.  The  open  vault, 
containing  the  bodies  of  his  wife  and  three  departed  children,  was 
surrounded  by  a  dense  mass  of  people,  through  whom  the  police  with 
difficulty  cleared  the  way.  There  Avas  a  short  and  simple  ceremony 
— merely  a  brief  prayer,  and  a  blessing — during  which  the  weeping 
relatives  stood  before  the  entrance  to  the  vault,  and  the  pall-bearers 
grouped  themselves  opposite  with  uncovered  heads.  Then  the  body 
of  Horace  Greeley  was  deposited  in  its  last  resting-place,  and  his 
daughters  descended,  and  laid  upon  the  coffin  their  tributes  of 
flowers. 

So  rests  the  great  journalist,  the  statesman,  the  philosopher,  the 
honest  man.  He  has  gone  to  his  grave  with  the  lament  of  the  whole 
people ;  he  will  hold  a  place  in  their  hearts  as  long  as  Americans 
know  how  to  honor  patriotism,  unselfishness,  and  Christian  virtue. 

DISTINGUISHED   MOURNERS. 

The  Clerk  of  the  Common  Council  was  busy,  yesterday  morn- 
ing, at  the  City  Hall,  dispensing  tickets  for  carriages  and  admission 
to  the  church  to  the  guests  of  the  city.  The  demand  was,  of  course, 
much  greater  than  the  supply,  and  many  were  disappointed  in  not 
receivinsc  attention.  These  and  the  other  distinguished  mourners  in 
the  church  were  the  following : 

The  President  of  the  United  States. 

The  Chief-Justice  of  the  United  States. 

The  Vice-President  and  the  Vice-President  elect 

The  Secretary  of  War. 

The  United  States  Minister  to  France. 

The  Governor  of  New  York. 

The  two  United  States  Senators  from  New  York. 


THE  CLOSIT^^G   CEREMONIES.  179 

The  Governor  of  New  Jersey. 

The  Governor  of  Connecticut. 

United  States  Senators  Lyman  Trumbull,  Carl  Schurz,  and 
Thomas  W.  Tipton. 

United  States  Representatives  N.  P.  Banks,  D.  P.  Melish  (elect), 
Lyman  Tremain  (elect),  ex-Gov.  McCormick,  of  Arizona. 

The  Mayors  of  New  York,  Jersey  City,  Brooklyn,  Xorwalk, 
Conn.,  Paterson,  N.  J.,  Orange,  N.  J.,  Hoboken.  X.  J.,  Poughkeep- 
sie,  N.  Y.,  Newark,  N.  J.,  Long  Island  City,  and  other  cities. 

Gen.  John  A.  Dix,  Governor  elect,  ex-Gov.  "VVard,  ex-Gov.  Ash- 
ley, the  Hon.  Thomas  E.  Stewart,  the  Hon.  John  V.  Gridley,  ex- 
Congressman  Hill,  the  Hon.  Chauncey  M.  Depew,  James  G.  Cooper, 
of  Greeley,  Col.,  W.  W.  Saunders  (colored),  of  Maryland,  A.  W. 
Hunter  (colored),  the  Hon.  Jacob  Patterson,  Assemblymen  Vi.  W. 
Niles  and  James  \V^.  Husted,  the  Hon.  E.  C.  Cowdin,  the  Hon.  L. 
Bradford,  Prince,  of  Queens  County,  Gen.  Babcock,  Gen.  McQuade, 
Col.  Lee,  of  Gov.  Parker's  Staff,  Gen.  Shaler,  Gen.  Runyon  and  Gen. 
Kilpatrick,  of  New  Jersey,  the  Rev.  Morgan  Dix,  D.D.,  Rector  of 
Trinity  Church ;  A.  W.  Leggett,  W.  W.  Harding,  John  A.  Foster, 
John  E.  Green,  and  many  others. 

Gen.  Chester  A.  Arthur,  Collector  of  the  Port ;  Gen.  P.  H. 
Jones,  Postmaster  of  New  York ;  Gen.  E.  A.  Merritt,  ex-Naval  Offi- 
cer; Gen.  Palmer,  ex-Appraiser;  E.  D.  Morgan,  ex-U.  S.  Senator; 
Gen.  Barlow,  Attorney-General ;  Gen.  Sharp,  United  States  Marshal. 

Col.  John  W.  Forney,  of  the  Philadelphia  Press ;  George  W. 
Childs,  of  the  Philadelphia  Ledger ;  W.  W.  Harding,  L.  Clarke  Da- 
vis, of  the  Philadelphia  Inquirer  ;  Morton  McMichael,  of  the  Phil- 
adelphia Arje ;  Enoch  Green,  of  the  Sunday  Transcript ;  Capt. 
Hincken,  of  the  Sunday  Dispatch ;  Manton  Marble,  editor  of  the 
World ;  Samuel  Bowles,  editor  of  the  Springfield  Repxiblican  ;  J. 
M.  Keating,  editor  of  the  Memphis  Appeal ;  a  large  number  of  ed- 
itors form  Connecticut  and  New  Jersey,  the  directors  of  the  Ameri- 
can Press  Association,  and  many  other  journalists. 

Judges  Fancher,  Davis,  Barrett,  and  Leonard,  of  the  Supreme 
Court ;  Joachimsen,  of  the  Marine  Court ;  Woodruff,  of  the  United 
States  Court. 

John  Elderkin  and  George  P.  Rowell  of  the  New  York  Liberal 
Club ;  S.  V.  White,  George  H.  Brodhead,  Charles  Graham,  George 
W.  McLean,  Beverly  Robinson,  Jr.,  Robert  Colby,  H.  T.  Morgan, 
Eugene  Thompson,  Alfred  Colville,  E.  H.  Miller,  representing  the 


180  MEMORIAL   OF   IIOEACE   GEEELEY. 

Stock  Exchange ;  a  Committee  of  thirty  from  the  Gold  Exchange, 
and  delegates  from  the  German  Greeley  and  Brown  Clubs,  the 
Liberal  Kepublican  General  Committee,  the  Republican  General 
Committee,  the  Tammany  Hall  General  Committee,  the  Apollo 
Hall  Democracy,  the  Lincoln  Club,  Union  League  Club,  the  Lotos 
Club,  the  Arcadian  Club,  the  Herald  Club,  the  Liberal  Club,  the 
Typographical  Society,  the  Farmers'  Club,  the  Rural  Club,  the  As- 
sociated Press,  the  American  Press,  the  American  Listitute,  Tem- 
pei'ance  Clubs,  and  many  others. 

Aldermen  Cochrane,  Falconer,  Conover,  Coman,  Martin,  Joyce, 
Radde,  INIehrbach,  Plunkitt,  McLaren,  Otis  F.  Hall,  and  Wilder; 
Assistant  Aldermen  Galvin,  Kraus,  Costello,  McDonald,  Flack,  Cod- 
dington,  Haley,  Pinckney ;  M.  J.  Kelley,  Clerk  of  Assistant  Alder- 
men ;  Fire  Marshal  Hitchman,  Superintendent  Macgregor  of  the 
Department  of  Buildings ;  Sherift*  Brennan,  Commissioners  Gross, 
Wood,  Mulally,  and  Van  Nort ;  Assistant  District- Attorney  Fellows ; 
Adolph  Kessler,  Coroner  elect ;  Coroners  Herrmann,  Keenan,  and 
Schirmer,  and  Charles  E.  Loew,  County  Clerk. 

Aldermen  Jacob  L  Bergen,  Tenth  Ward  ;  William  Dwyer, 
Ripley  Ropes,  John  M.  Clancy,  James  Boland,  John  McGroarty, 
John  P.  Douglass,  Michael  Coffers,  John  A.  Taylor,  Thomas 
McPherson,  John  Rabcr,  Henry  Dawson,  Jr.,  Joseph  P.  Walter, 
Walter  D.  C.  Boggs,  and  William  Richardson ;  Abijah  Whitney, 
Alderman  elect  ;  John  W.  Harman,  Supervisor  ;  R.  M.  Whiting, 
Commissioner  of  Public  Works ;  A.  Nelson  Schaiirman,  Auditor ; 
the  Hon,  W.  W.  Goodrich  ;  ex-Senator  J,  F,  Pierce — all  of  Brook- 
lyn. 

Alderman  Pennington,  of  Orange,  N.  J.  ;  Alderman  Tompkins, 
of  Hoboken,  N.  J.  ;  Alderman  Beatty,  of  Middletown,  N.  Y.  ;  three 
representatives  of  the  Baltimore  Common  Council  ;  five  representa- 
tives of  the  Newark  Common  Council ;  Supervisor  Robinson,  of 
Washington,  D.  C.  ;  and  many  repi'csentativcs  of  the  municipal 
governments  of  adjacent  cities. 

About  half-past  ten  o'clock  the  guests  of  the  city  were  directed 
to  take  seats  in  the  carriages  drawn  up  in  front  of  the  City  Hall. 
The  carriages  left  the  City  Hall  Park  for  the  church  in  a  quarter  of 
an  hour,  bearing  the  Mayors  and  Common  Councils  of  New  York, 
Brooklyn,  Newark,  and  Long  Island  City,  heads  of  departments  of 
the  municipal  offices,  judges,  and  other  officials.  The  line  of  car- 
riages was  headed  and  closed  by  detachments  of  police. 


THE   CLOSING   CEREMONIES.  181 

Among  many  others  the  following  dispatches  were  received : 

Jefferson  City,  JIc,  Dec.  4,  1872. 
I  tender  ray  deepest  sympathy  in  the  great  affliction  which  our 
Avhole  country  lias  suflfered  in  the  death  of  Mr.  Greeley.     Were  it 
possible  I  should  certainly  be  present  to  render  the  last  tribute  to 
his  Avorth.  B.  Gkatz  Brown. 

"Washington,  Dec.  3,  1872. 
I  lament  that  my  health  will  not  permit  the  night  journey  to  New 
York,  but  in  soul  I  shall  be  at  the  funeral.         Charles  Sumner, 


THE    LAST    ACT. 

[From  Tlie  Tribune,  Bee.  5.] 

Yesterday  the  last  act  in  the  prolonged  obsequies  of  Horace 
Greeley  was  performed  in  the  presence,  one  might  say,  of  the  whole 
people  of  the  United  States.  In  New  York  and  Brooklyn  business 
came  to  a  stand.  The  merchant  forsook  his  ledger;  the  lawyer 
abandoned  his  books ;  the  laborer  dropped  his  hod  ;  the  poor  girl 
laid  aside  her  needle;  and  all  stood  reverently  by  the  wayside  while 
"  the  good  gray  liead  Avhich  all  men  knew  "  was  borne  soi'rowfully 
to  its  final  rest. 

The  whole  country  sympathized  with  us.  From  one  end  of  the 
land  to  the  other  flags  drooped  at  half-mast,  and  mourning  drapery 
hung  before  the  closed  doors.  There  have  been  richer  pageants 
than  this;  but  there  has  been  no  such  magnificent,  such  touching 
demonstration  of  popular  feeling. 

THE    PEOPLE. 

If  the  scenes  during  the  lying-in-state  of  Mr.  Greeley's  remains 
at  the  City  Hall  were  impressive  and  sorrowful,  what  shall  we  say 
of  the  still  more  remarkable  demonstrations  of  yesterday,  when, 
through  a  mourning  city,  his  Ijody  was  borne  to  its  last  home  ? 
The  whole  populace  poured  forth  to  watch  the  solemn  cortege  and 
testify  their  grief  From  early  in  the  forenoon  until  the  long  pro- 
cession had  passed  by  the  entire  line  of  march,  from  Forty-fifth 
Street  to  Greenwood  Cemetery  was  crowded  with  spectators.  It 
was  not  merely  an  assemblage  of  sight-seers ;  it  was  a  gathering  of 
sympathizing  friends.     As  on  Tuesday,  sad  faces  and  moist  eyes 


182  MEMORIAL   OF  HORACE    GREELEY. 

eveiy where  looked  out  from  the  throng.  As  on  Tuesday,  the  labor- 
ing-men and  women  and  humbler  classes  generally  were  foremost 
in  theii-  manifestations  and  most  demonstrative  in  their  sorrow.  It 
had  been  noticed  on  Tuesday  that  among  the  visitors  to  the  Govern- 
or's Room,  at  the  City  Hall,  were  great  numbers  of  newsboys. 
These  active  little  members  of  society  were  plentiful  along  the  route 
yesterday  also,  and  for  once  their  shrill  cries  were  hushed  and  their 
spirits  were  quieted.  Horace  Greeley  had  always  been  one  of  their 
favorite  heroes.  They  used  to  call  out  to  him  familiarly  in  the 
streets,  and  many  of  them,  doubtless,  cherished  the  expectation  of 
getting  to  be  editors  some  day  themselves.  The  colored  people 
Avex*e  likewise  numerous,  and  many  of  them  seemed  deeply  atfected. 
Farmers  were  often  seen  among  the  crowd.  "  Sir,"  said  a  sturdy 
countryman  to  a  member  of  Tlie  Tribune  staff,  in  front  of  Mr.  Sin- 
clair's house,  before  the  cortege  moved,  "I  have  come  a  hundred 
miles  to  be  at  the  funeral  of  Horace  Greeley  ;  can't  you  possibly  get 
me  in  to  have  one  look  at  him  ?  "  The  doors  had  then  been  closed, 
but  after  many  repulses  the  man  got  in.  A  moment  later  he  came 
out  with  flushed  face  and  trembling  lip,  pulled  his  hat  down  over 
his  eyes,  and  hurried  away.  Forty-fifth  Street,  between  Fifth  and 
Sixth  avenues,  Avas  occupied  by  a  great  multitude  of  people,  while 
the  Fifth  Avenue,  above  and  below  the  church,  Avas  almost  impassa- 
ble long  before  the  hour  appointed  for  the  funeral.  Just  opposite 
the  church  is  a  roAV  of  unfinished  dwelling-houses.  These  "were 
occupied  by  a  throng  which  filled  all  the  windows  and  covered  the 
roof.  The  dooi-steps  of  all  the  houses  along  the  avenue,  without 
exception,  were  thickly  crowded;  Avindows  and  balconies  Avere  full; 
hotels,  club-houses,  and  public  buildings  of  all  kinds  presented  a 
sea  of  human  faces.  No  one  could  misunderstand  the  meaning  of 
such  a  gathering.  It  Avas  greater  than  the  multitude  which  Avel- 
comed  the  Grand  Duke  Alexis,  or  watched  the  funeral  of  Abraham 
Lincoln.  It  has  had  no  parallel  in  our  recent  history.  Yet  cA'ery- 
body  knew  that  as  a  spectacle  the  funeral  Avould  have  little  to  inter- 
est the  mere  idle  spectator.  There  were  no  soldiers,  no  banners,  no 
flags,  no  emblems,  no  bands  of  music,  no  gaudy  car  with  led  horses. 
It  was  the  plain  funeral  of  a  plain  man,  dittering  from  other  displays 
only  in  being  so  much  longer.  The  people  came  to  look  on  because 
the  man  whose  body  was  carried  by  had  been  their  friend ;  because, 
as  Mr.  Beecher  Avell  remarked,  he  had  been  "  feet  for  the  lame, 
tongue  for  the  dumb,  eyes  for  the  blind,  a  heart  for  those  Avho  had 


THE   CLOSING   CEREMONIES.  183 

none  to  sympathize  with  them."  "  Never,"  said  a  gray-haired  spec- 
tator among  the  crowd  in  Broadway,  "  have  I  seen  such  a  spontane- 
ous outpouring  of  the  people,  or  the  masses  so  generally  and  so 
deeply  affected."  From  the  rich  merchant,  who  closed  his  ware- 
house and  hung  the  building  with  festoons  of  black  and  white,  down 
to  the  beggar  who  stood  weeping  by  the  curb-stone,  all  were  moved 
by  a  common  impulse  of  affection  and  respect. 

The  sidewalks  of  Broadway,  below  Canal  Street,  were  fringed 
with  people  as  early  as  elevei.  o'clock  in  tlie  morning,  and  at  noon 
the  police  at  Pine  Street  Avere  forced  to  clear  the  streets  repeatedly. 
The  crowd  was  not,  therefoi-e,  one  which  accompanied  the  proces- 
sion as  it  moved ;  each  square  contained  a  new  and  varied  assem- 
blage ;  and  it  was  not  until  the  procession  had  passed  that  the  streets 
became  cleared. 

At  various  points  the  character  of  the  crowds  changed  with  the 
locality.  At  Madison  Square,  for  instance,  numerous  strangers  from 
the  hotels  formed  a  distinctive  class.  Lower  down  Fifth  Avenue, 
the  fringe  of  human  beings  along  the  sidewalk  was  thinner  than  at 
any  other  part  of  the  line,  for  the  reason  that  the  residents  of  that 
vicinity  Avere  at  their  windows  or  occupied  elevated  positions  on  the 
high  stoops  which  are  a  characteristic  of  that  thoroughfare. 

In  Broadway,  where  stoops  are  exceptional,  the  crowd  was  sev- 
eral deep  on  either  sidewalk  ;  and  stoi-e  windows  and  unfinished 
buildings  were  filled  with  lookers-on.  Along  Broadway,  at  every 
cross  street  were  drawn  up  large  trucks,  on  which  men,  women,  and 
children  were  mounted.  It  was  only  at  these  points  that  the  least 
undue  hilarity  was  observable.  The  crowd  was  greatest  in  Broad- 
way at  Prince,  Houston,  and  Bleecker  streets.  On  either  side  and 
near  to  Broadway  in  this  vicinity  are  many  tenement  houses,  few- 
parts  of  the  city  being  so  thickly  populated  ;  and-  the  thousands  of 
working-men  and  women  here  resident  were  all  crowded  into  the 
main  thoroughfare  for  two  hours  before  the  approach  of  the  hearse. 

A  reporter  waD  detailed  to  pass  along  the  route  of  the  procession 
a  half  mile  or  more  in  advance  of  the  cortege.  From  Dr.  Chapin's 
Church  to  Madison  Square,  a  distance  of  just  a  mile,  tlie  avenue  was 
nearly  blockaded.  On  the  outer  edge  of  the  sidewalk  the  crowd 
were  huddled  two  and  three  deep.  On  the  walk  within  there  was 
barely  room  to  pass.  The  day  would  have  worn  a  holiday  aspect 
bat  for  the  quiet  and  subdued  demeanor  of  the  people,  and  the  occa- 
sional exhibitions  of  sorrow.     About  Madison  Square,  and  on  the 


184  MEMORIAL   OF  HORACE  GREELEY. 

space  before  the  Fifth  Avenue  Hotel,  the  concourse  was  still  greater. 
All  along  Broadway  from  Fourteenth  Street,  through  which  the  pro- 
cession moved,  to  Hamilton  Ferry,  there  was  a  dense  mass  of  people. 
About  the  Bowling  Green,  the  Battery,  and  the  ferry-house  th 
crowd  still  stood  patiently  waiting.  On  the  Brooklyn  side  the  same 
Bcenes  were  repeated.  Along  Union  Street  to  the  Fourth  Avenue, 
and  down  the  avenue  to  the  Cemetery  stretched  the  wonderful 
double  lines  of  Avatchers.  At  Greenwood  was  a  still  more  surpris- 
ing sight.  Here  an  enormous  concourse  had  gathered,  standing 
about  the  entrance  gates,  and  fringing  the  winding  roads,  and  con- 
centrating about  the  open  grave,  so  that  the  mourners,  Avhon  the  cor- 
tege had  arrived,  had  the  greatest  difficulty  in  following  the  hearse. 

THE    POLICE. 

The  admirable  efficiency,  good  temper,  and  good  discipline  of 
the  police,  which  we  have  had  occasion  to  praise  so  highly  before, 
were  more  than  ever  consj^icuous  in  the  arrangements  for  this  extra- 
ordinary turn-out,  and  the  control  of  the  enormous  crowd  through 
which  the  procession  was  to  pass.  Superintendent  Kelso  had,  the 
niglit  before,  given  the  necessary  orders  to  the  police  captains,  and 
was  on  the  ground  early  in  the  morning  to  take  personal  dii'cction  of 
affiiirs  at  the  church.  The  sti-eets  around  the  church  were  intrusted 
to  the  care  of  Captain  Gunner,  of  the  Nineteenth  Precinct,  who  held 
command  over  250  men  ;  the  companies  were  led  by  Captain  Wil- 
liams, of  the  Twenty-first  Precinct;  Capt,  Bennett,  of  the  Twelfth; 
Captain  Killale,  of  the  Twenty-second  ;  Captain  x\llaire,  of  the 
Broadway  police  ;  Captain  McDonnell,  of  the  Thirty-first ;  Captain 
Davis,  of  the  Thirtieth. 

From  the  church  to  Hamilton  Ferry,  a  distance  of  three  miles, 
the  street  was  lined  with  policemen.  As  the  procession  advanced 
the  police  on  guard  gathered  into  line  in  its  rear  as  a  protection 
against  carriages,  and  were  relieved  by  others  at  various  points, 
thus  enabling  the  force  gradually  to  return  to  their  respective  pre- 
cincts. 

Along  the  line  of  march,  from  Forty-fifth  Street  to  IMadison 
Square,  were  stationed  men  under  the  command  of  Captain  McEl- 
wain,  of  the  Twentieth  Precinct,  and  Captain  Cameron,  of  the  Eight- 
eenth Precinct.  Madison  Square  aiid  its  ncighhorhood  were  under 
the  charge  of  Captain  Burden,  of  the  Twenty-ninth  Precinct.  From 
Madison  Square  to  Fourteenth  Street  were  ranged  the  men  of  Cap- 


THE  CLOSING   CEEEMOXIES.  185 

tain  Sanders,  of  the  Sixteenth  Precinct,  Captain  "Washburn,  of  the 
Ninth  Precinct,  and  Captain  Hedden,  of  the  Twenty-eighth  Precinct. 
Union  Square  and  Fourteenth  Street  were  guarded  by  Captain 
"Walsh,  of  the  Seventeenth  Precinct.  From  Fourteenth  Street  to  the 
City  Hall,  Broadway  was  lined  with  the  men  of  Captain  Byrnes,  of 
the  Fifteenth  Precinct,  Captain  McCuUogh,  of  the  Eighth  Precinct, 
Captain  Clinchy,  of  the  Fourteenth  Precinct,  Captain  Petty,  of  the 
Fifth  Precinct,  and  Captain  Kennedy,  of  the  Sixth  Precinct.  At  the 
City  Hall,  Captain  Leary,  of  the  Twenty-sixth  Precinct,  had  charge. 
Below  the  City  Hall  to  the  Battery  the  spectators  were  kept  out  of 
the  street  by  the  men  of  Captain  "Williamson,  of  the  Third  Precinct, 
Captain  Caffrey,  of  the  Second  Precinct,  Captain  Ward,  of  the 
Twenty-seventh  Precinct,  and  Captain  "Van  Dusen,  of  the  First  Pre- 
cinct, At  the  Battery  there  were  250  men  under  the  command  of 
Captain  Copeland,  who  guarded  the  ferry. 

Capt.  "Ullnian,  of  the  Fourth  Pi-ecinct,  escorted  the  procession, 
and  Capt.  Wilson,  of  the  Mounted  Police,  escorted  the  Boards  of 
Aldermen. 

PUBLIC    MOURXING. 

In  Broadway  it  seemed  as  if  almost  every  building  had  a  flag  at 
half-mast.  In  the  Fifth  Avenue,  and,  indeed,  throughout  the  city,  this 
mark  of  respect  to  the  memory  of  the  dead  was  all  but  universal,  and 
in  a  great  many  cases  the  flags  were  draped  Avith  black.  In  the 
avenue  a  number  of  private  houses  Avere  hung  in  mourning.  The 
residence  of  Mr.  P.  T.  Barnum,!N'o.  438  Fifth  Avenue,  was  festooned 
with  black  and  white  muslin,  and  displayed  the  inscription,  "  It  is 
done."  Mr.  Theron  R.  Butler,  No.  433  Fifth  Avenue;  Joseph 
West,  No.  430;  A.  W.  Griswold,  No.  415;  and  John  Mack,  No. 
365,  hung  out  similar  tokens  of  respect.  The  Hon.  James  Brooks, 
at  No.  363,  had  a  flag  bound  with  crape.  Mi-s.  P.  B.  Tryon,  No. 
229  Fifth  Avenue,  displayed  a  portrait  of  Mr.  Greeley,  draped  in 
mourning.  The  Blossom  Club,  at  No.  129,  and  the  Manhattan  Club, 
were  extensively  decorated  with  similar  somber  trappings.  Brew- 
ster's carriage  warehouse,  on  the  corner  of  Fifth  Avqnue  and  Four- 
teenth Street — an  establishment  iu  which  Mr.  Greeley  was  known 
to  have  taken  a  particular  interest  on  account  of  its  adoption  of  the 
cooperative  system — was  closed  and  in  mourning.  In  Broadway 
both  of  A.  T.  Stewart's  establishments  were  closed  ;  so  were  also  the 
shops  and  offices  of  G.  Schirmer;  Fellows,  Hofl'man  &  Co.,  the 
Wheeler  &  Wilson  Sewing  Machine  Company,  Ball,  Black  &  Co., 


186  MEMORIAL   OF   HORACE   GREELEY. 

D.  Appleton  &  Co.,  the  Meriden  Britannia  Co.,  Howe's  Sewing 
Machine  Co.,  C.  G.  Gunther  &  Co.,  Edson,  Bradley  &  Co.,  Wm. 
H.  Lyon  &  Co.,  Cochrane,  McLean  &  Co.,  Catlin,  Brundrett  &  Co., 
Tefft,  Griswold  &  Kellogg,  L.  Anison  &  Co.,  M.  J.  Sheppard, 
Ilicks,  Ban-  &  Co.,  Paton  &  Co.,  Eldridge,  Dunham  &  Co.,  Hemp- 
hill &  Hamlin,  The  American  Agriculturist,  the  New  York  Loan 
and  Lidemnity  Co.,  Knox,  the  Goodyear  Rubber  Co.,  and  the  Ger- 
man American  Mutual  Warehousing  and  Security  Co.  These  estab- 
lishments, all  in  Broadway,  were  formally  closed ;  but  business,  in- 
deed, for  a  great  part  of  the  day  seemed  to  be  generally  suspended. 
Windows  were  given  up  to  ladies,  and  at  banking-houses  the  clerks 
forsook  their  counters  and  hung  upon  the  steps  and  balconies.  The 
North  German  Consul  displayed  a  flag  at  half-mast.  The  photo- 
graphers Rockwood,  Sarony,  Brady,  Gurnoy,  Fredericks,  all  exhib- 
ited portraits  dressed  with  crape,  and  canvass  portraits  were  sus- 
pended from  some  of  the  houses.  The  mourning  draperies  all  along 
the  street  were  too  many  to  be  described  here  in  full. 

Brentano  displayed  a  large  placard,  bearing  the  inscription :  "  The 
lifeless  champion  of  a  universal  brotherhood  has  been  successful  far 
beyond  Presidencies  or  leaderships,  for  hearts  have  been  given  him 
better  than  votes,  and  a  holy  enshrinement  grander  than  national 
honors."  Le  Moult,  No.  7  Union  Square,  had  in  the  window  a  plas- 
ter bust  of  Mr.  Greeley,  crowned  Avith  olive  leaves,  imbedded  in 
moss,  and  overhung  Avith  vines.  The  motto  :  "  He  reckoned  not 
the  past  while  aught  remained,  Great  to  be  done  or  mighty  to  be 
gained,"  was  displayed.  E.  R.  Cartwright,  No.  20  East  Fourteenth 
Street,  draped  the  front  of  his  store.  At  Broadway  and  Fourteenth 
Sti'eet,  the  words,  "  It  is  done,"  were  displayed.  Wm.  Dibble,  No. 
854  Broadway,  draped  the  front  of  his  building.  Mme.  Demorest, 
No.  838,  had  the  windows  drajied  with  white  satins  and  black  silks. 
Gabrielson,  No.  821,  Dr.  Humphries,  No.  817,  displayed  the  badge 
of  mourning.  The  Liberal  Republican  General  Committee,  having 
rooms  at  No.  814,  had  encircled  with  crape  a  large  portrait  of  Mr. 
Greeley,  bearipgthe  inscription,  "  We  mourn  the  loss  of  our  leader." 
The  St.  Denis  Hotel  displayed  a  flag  at  half-mast. 

Over  Merritt's  Dining  Hall,  in  Ninth  Stieet,  near  Broadway,  and 
the  New  Yoi-k  Hotel,  in  Broadway,  flags  were  flying  at  halt-mast. 
At  No.  809,  Brink  tt  Russell,  were  the  words,  "  A  nation  mourns 
Horace  Greeley,  ever  tlie  friend  of  humanity."  Semmons,  No.  GS7, 
Union  Adams,  No.  037,  and  Chamberlin's  photographic  studio,  No. 


THE   CLOSING   CEKEMONIES.  187 

603,  draped  their  buildings  heavily.  The  Southern,  Grand  Central, 
Continental,  Metropolitan,  and  St.  Nicholas  Hotels,  the  Revere  and 
Brandreth  Houses,  Whitfield,  Powers  &  Co.,  No.  471,  Lord  &  Tay- 
lor, and  Devlin  &  Co.,  at  Grand  Street,  Scribner,  Armstrong  &  Co., 
No.  654,  Strong  &  Sons,  H.  M.  Silverman,  No.  554,  Ristfimer,  Smith 
&  Co.,  and  Baldwin,  at  Canal  Street,  all  displayed  one  or  more  flags 
at  half-mast.  The  front  of  the  store  of  Alfred  P.  Reynolds,  No.  630, 
bore  the  motto,  in  white  letters  on  black  ground,  "Though  lost  to 
sight,  to  memory  dear."  Bartlett,  Berry,  Reed  &  Co.,  No.  559,  and 
J.  Meyer  &  Co.,  and  Sehl  &  Nissen  Bros.,  both  of  No.  552,  di-aped 
their  entire  buildings.  The  places  of  business  of  the  American 
National  Bank,  R.  J.  Roberts  &  Co.,  Nos.  542  and  544,  L.  Zechiel, 
No.  532,  Kugler  &  Hymes,  B.  Travis  &  Co.,  No.  505,  B.  Meyberg 
&  Co.,  No.  503,  Kellogg,  Hubbard  &  Co.,  No.  499,  Robbins,  Stone 
&  Hyde,  No.  472,  Horace  Waters,  No.  481,  Myerson  &  Plant,  No. 
478,  H.  C.  Folger,  No.  469,  R.  Richards,  No.  425,  Wm.  Browning 
&  Co.,  J.  Hermann  &  Son,  the  Real  Estate  Trust  Company,  Thomas 
M.  Ai-gall,  No.  313,  the  Nortji-Western  National  Insurance  Com- 
pany, N.  A.  Knapp  &  Co.,  Butler,  Pitkin  &  Co.,  David  Valentine 
&  Co.,  Cohen,  Schloss  &  Co.,  S.  P.  Robinson  &  Co.,  Diggs,  Cun- 
ningham &  Co.,  the  Astor  House,  and  many  others,  were  more  or  less 
draped.  Among  other  significant  mottoes  displayed  were,  "In 
memoria  eterna  vivet  Justus,"  and  "His  honesty  and  charity  still 
live." 

THE    CHURCH. 

The  Church  of  the  Divine  Paternity  (Dr.  Chapin's),  in  which  the 
funeral  ceremonies  were  held,  contains  only  1,500  people,  and  seemed 
on  that  account  perhaps  ill-suited  for  an  occasion  like  this.  But  if  it 
had  held  15,000  it  would  not  have  been  large  enough  for  the  multi- 
tude who  wanted  to  be  present.  It  is  the  church  which  Mr.  Greeley 
attended.  It  is  the  church  from  which,  a  month  ago,  the  remains  of 
his  wife  were  carried  to  the  grave.  The  tickets  of  admission  were 
distributed  by  a  committee  of  the  pew-holders ;  and  though  more 
seem  to  have  been  issued  than  the  size  of  the  church  would  have 
justified,  there  was  good  order  within  the  building,  and  no  more 
crowding  than  was  to  be  expected  at  such  a  ceremony.  Under 
the  direction  of  a  committee  of  ladies  of  the  congregation,  consisting 
of  Mrs.  Gabriel  Kent,  Mrs.  E.  H.  Chapin,  Mrs.  W.  H.  Morgan,  Mrs. 
Geo.  Hoffman,  Mrs.  A.  J.  Jamieson,  Mrs.  Wm.  H.  Daly,  Mrs.  N.  L. 
Cort,  Mrs.  George  Kelloch,  Mrs.  C.  L.  Stickney,  Mrs.  T.  F.  Mc- 


188  MEMORIAL   OF    HORACE   GREELEY. 

DoAvell,  and  Mrs.  J.  O.  Rliines,  the  building  had  been  appropriately 
decorated.  Over  the  door  in  front  hung  a  flag,  looped  up  Avith 
black.  In  the  vestibule  was  a  portrait  of  Mr.  Greeley,  with  crape 
around  the  frame.  Tlie  screen  behind  the  pulpit  Avas  covered  with 
black  cloth,  hanging  in  graceful  folds,  and  relieved  by  festoons,  Avhile 
from  the  top  of  it  depended  graceful  strings  of  srailax.  In  the  middle 
of  this  somber  background  were  the  shield  sent  from  Chappaqua, 
with  its  wreath  of  wheat  stalks  and  crossed  axe  and  pen,  and  the 
floral  representation  of  the  arms  of  the  City  of  New  York,  pre- 
sented by  tlie  Common  Council.  The  pulpit  itself  and  the  rail  in 
front  were  fully  draped.  Drapery  ran  around  the  front  of  the  gal- 
leries, and  from  bracket  to  bracket  along  the  side  walls.  Lengths 
of  serge  drooped  from  the  center  of  the  ceiling  to  the  spring  of 
each  arch,  twined  about  the  columns,  and  hung  from  the  pinnacles 
of  the  organ. 

The  pew  which  Mr.  Greeley  used  to  occupy,  about  midway  of  the 
north  aisle,  next  the  wall,  was  draped  with  crape.  The  figure,  in 
flowers,  of  a  lyre  with  broken  strings,  presented  by  Miss  Lizzie  Ster- 
ling, hung  at  the  head.  The  seat  was  thickly  strewn  with  white 
flowers,  camellias  being  placed  in  the  spot  which  Mr.  Greeley  himself 
used  to  occupy.     This  pew  Avill  be  left  empty  for  thirty  days. 

The  most  remarkable  decorations  of  the  church,  however,  were 
the  flowers. 

THE    FLOWERS. 

If  every  person  who  has  dropped  a  tear  at  the  death  of  our  great 
chief,  who  has  mourned  for  him  with  a  sincere  and  heart-felt  sorrow, 
had  been  allowed  to  send  to  the  church  w^here  we  took  leave  of  him 
even  a  single  rose-bud  to  be  laid,  a  tender  token,  beside  his  bier, 
there  would  have  been  no  room  there  for  the  throng  of  mourning 
people.  As  it  is,  he  can  scarcely  find  sweeter  or  more  abundant 
blossoms  in  the  land  of  eternal  summer,  whither  he  has  gone,  than 
surrounded  yesterday  all  we  had  left  of  him  on  earth.  The  church, 
with  all  its  floral  decorations,  was  a  strangely  beautiful  sight.  About 
and  within  the  chancel  were  collected  the  largest  and  most  beautiful 
of  those  lovely  gifts  which  reverent  hands  had  brought  there  to  ex- 
hale their  souls  of  sweetness  round  the  body  whose  soul  had  fled. 
Mr.  Greeley  had  been  a  ijian  who,  clear  thinker,  and  strong  wi-iter, 
and  great  editor  as  he  was,  had  yet  found  time  to  love  all  the  fair 
and  pleasant  things  of  Nature;  to  care  for  flowers,  and  fruit,  and 
waving  grain ;  and  there  was  a  beautiful  appropriateness  and  per- 


THE  CLOSING   CEREMONIES.  189 

sonal  significance  in  many  of  the  devices  which  surrounded  his  bier. 
A  magnificent  arch  of  white  flowers,  presented  by  the  ladies  of  Dr. 
Chapin's  congregation,  spanned  the  pulpit,  over  the  speaker's  head. 
On  its  white  ground  was  wrought  in  crimson  blossoms  the  legend, 
"  I  know  that  my  Redeemer  liveth."  Indeed,  these  words,  and  "  It 
is  done,"  were  repeated  again  and  again  in  the  decorations,  in  all 
sorts  of  devices.  At  the  right  of  the  pulpit  stood  a  gift  from  the 
Common  Council — a  large  stand,  of  which  the  whole  top  was  com- 
posed of  tlie  choicest  flowers,  rose-buds,  and  camellias  and  tube-roses, 
surmounted  by  a  crown  wrought  from  the  same  lovely  blossoms. 
A  similar  stand  and  crown  was  the  gift  of  Mayor  Hall,  and  another 
came  from  the  Lincoln  Club.  The  Lotos,  the  Union  League,  and 
The  Herald  clubs  were  represented  by  appropriate  ofie rings.  From 
the  German  Greeley  and  Brown  Club  came  an  immense  quill, 
wrought  in  the  choicest  flowers. 

One  of  the  most  remarkable  of  the  tributes  was  a  plow,  composed 
of  camellias  and  white  roses,  with  a  groundwork  of  violets  and  other 
modest  blossoms,  made  by  Gordon  Brothers.  This  beautiful  design 
was  the  gift  of  the  employes  of  The  Tribune  counting-room.  Among 
the  most  conspicuous  oflei-ings  was  a  magnificent  floral  tablet,  three 
and  a  half  feet  wide,  standing  about  six  feet  from  the  floor,  and  pre- 
senting the  appearance  of  a  picture  supported  by  columns,  of  which 
the  frame  consisted  of  violets  and  tea-rose-buds.  The  ground  of  the 
tablet  was  formed  of  the  choicest  white  flowers,  inscribed  at  the 
top  Avith  the  words,  "It  is  done;"  in  the  center,  "I  know  that  my 
Redeemer  liveth."  On  the  reverse  were  the  letters  "H.  G.,"  and  the 
motto,  "  In  memoriara."  The  inscriptions  were  in  red  flowers.  The 
columns  were  covered  with  smilax,  interspersed  with  Avhite  flowers. 
This  tablet,  designed  by  a  lady,  was  presented  by  "  The  Tribune 
Association."  It  was  executed  by  Messrs.  Klunder  &  Long,  the  same 
florists  \vho  furnished  the  decorations  for  the  birthday  festival  of  Mr. 
Greeley  in  February  last;  they  freely  bestowed  their  artistic  skill  in 
its  preparation  as  a  personal  tribute  to  the  memory  of  the  departed. 

The  clock  in  front  of  the  singer's  gallery  was  stopped  at  6:50,  the 
hour  when  Mr.  Greeley  died.  In  the  drapery  above  this  was  a  floral 
cross  of  exquisite  workmanship,  presented  by  Mrs.  Robert  B.  Roose- 
velt. Pendant  from  the  gas  fixtures  at  the  north  side  of  the  pulpit 
was  a  beautiful  floral  cross,  presented  by  B.  F.  Butler. 

In  a  corresponding  position  at  the  south  of  the  pulpit  was  a 
floral  harp,  with  strings  composed  of  violets.     One  of  these  was 


190  MEMORIAL   OF    HORACE   GREELEY. 

broken,  and  across  the  strings  lay  a  pen.  The  whole  device  was  a 
most  happy  one,  and  came  with  great  propriety  from  the  Arcadian 
Club.  Over  the  desk  a  great  floral  arch  rose,  and  on  it  was  the 
words,  "  I  know  that  my  Redeemer  livcth,"  This  was  the  present 
of  the  ladies  of  Dr.  Chapin's  church.  The  speakers  stood  directly 
under  it,  and  the  Scripture,  and  the  thoughts  expressed,  and  the 
prayers  seemed  to  catch  a  fragrance  from  the  silent  flowers. 

Along  the  front  edge  of  the  desk,  and  before  the  great  Bible, 
was  a  continuous  garland  with  the  words,  "  It  is  done."  Pendant 
from  the  front  of  the  desk  was  an  exquisite  wreath,  and  on  the 
attached  card,  written  in  an  unsteady  hand,  Avere  the  words  "  With 
the  regrets  of  Isaiah  Rynders." 

Near  Mayor  Hall's  oflEering  was  a  beautiful  floral  anchor,  pre- 
sented by  the  Female  Department  of  Grammar  School  No.  19.  On 
the  card  was  the  wish,  ^''  Fama  semper  vivat.''''  A  very  tasteful 
crown  not  far  away  was  presented  by  Commodore  C.  K.  Garrison. 

Among  the  beautiful  and  suggestive  gifts  was  a  wreath  of  laurel 
woven  in  the  old  Roman  fashion.  This  most  fit  and  thoughtful 
reminder  of  a  noble  life  and  its  future  fame  came  from  Miss  Kate 
Field — her  "  oflTering  to  the  master-mind  of  journalism." 

But  the  chronicle  of  all  the  gifts  which  loving  hearts  had  sent 
would  be  too  long  a  list.  From  one  an  anchor,  from  one  a  cross, 
from  another  a  wreath,  and — one  of  the  most  exquisite  of  the  devices 
— from  still  another,  a  broken  shaft,  which  stood  upon  the  j^ulpit. 
About  the  coffin  itself  were  arranged  the  gifts  of  the  closest  per- 
sonal friends.  Among  them,  one  of  the  most  beautiful  was  a  wreath 
of  ivy  starred  with  violets.  The  air  -svas  full  of  the  sweet  breath  of 
these  flowers  which,  to-morrow,  would  be  as  dead  as  our  dead  leader. 
They  were  thick  under  the  feet  which  trod  so  reverently,  as  they 
bore  him  away ;  they  filled  every  available  space  with  their  beauty 
— a  beauty  which,  having  loved  once,  he  must  love  to-day ;  for  surely 
he,  too,  was  there,  seeing,  with  eyes  that  had  grown  clear  in  the 
new  morning's  light,  the  grief  witli  which  we  mourned,  the  honor 
with  which  Ave  honored  him. 

THK   LESSON    OF    THE    DAY. 

[From  The  Tribune,  Dec.  5.] 
Yesterday,  we  may  say  without  hyperbole,  the  City  of  New 
York  was  in  mourning.    Yesterday  was  accorded  to  a  private  citizen 
those  honors  which  municipalities  have  been  accustomed  to  reserve 


THE  CLOSING  CEREMONIES.  191 

for  famous  statesmen  dying  in  office,  or  for  heroes  upon  whose  biers 
Avere  disphiyed  the  laurels  won  in  great  and  decisive  battles.  The 
spectacle,  however  broad  and  impressive,  was  simple  enough  to  be 
in  perfect  keeping  with  the  character  of  him  whose  departure  had 
evoked  it.  He  was  a  man  of  peace,  and  no  salvo  of  artillery  thun- 
dered his  requiem — no  strains  of  martial  elegy  bewailed  his  loss. 
He  was  a  man  of  the  broadest  and  most  tender  humanity,  and  the 
memory  of  his  universal  benevolence  caused  almost  countless  hearts 
to  pulse  Avith  one  accordant  beat  of  sorrow  and  of  gratitude.  He 
was  a  man  whose  life  was  chiefly  devoted  to  the  discussion  of  public 
affiiirs,  and  President  and  Chief-Justice,  Secretary,  Senator,  and  Re- 
presentative joined  the  long  train  which  followed  him  to  the  tomb. 
The  firmness  of  his  hold  upon  the  popular  respect  and  aifection 
might  have  been  before  conjectured  ;  it  was  demonstrated  only 
when  praise  and  blame  were  alike  to  him  inaudible.  But  the  great 
citizen  had  for  his  mourners  the  people  he  had  loved  so  well ;  and 
for  whose  prosperity  and  happiness,  for  whose  culture  and  advance- 
ment in  all  useful  and  honorable  ways,  there  never  was  a  moment 
of  all  his  life  when  he  was  not  willing  to  spend  and  to  be  spent. 
His  had  been  only  manly  arts ;  he  had  steadfastly  recognized  every 
fellow-creature  as  a  brother,  but  his  soul  had  ever  abhorred  every 
low  practice  of  the  demagogue;  he  had  early  determined  to  speak 
the  things  which  were  true  rather  than  the  things  Avhich  were  palat- 
able ;  he  had  kept  no  truce  with  popular  vices,  and  had  denounced 
wrong-doing  alike  in  high  places  and  in  low ;  he  had  censured  with- 
out restraints  of  language  the  unthrift  recklessness  which  keeps 
poverty  poor,  not  less  than  the  fever  of  pursuit  and  selfishness 
of  possession  which  make  riches  a  curse ;  there  was  no  public  or 
private  error  in  the  city  of  his  adoption  which,  from  considerations 
of  prudence,  he  had  failed  to  rebuke.  But  yesterday  there  was  no 
irritating  memory  of  the  severity  with  Avhich  he  had  exercised  the 
censorship  to  which  Providence  had  called  him.  The  men  with 
whom  his  political  fortunes  had  been  cast  were  about  him  ;  but 
there,  too,  proffering  equal  tokens  of  respect,  were  the  men  Avho 
had  sometimes  been  the  objects  of  his  most  unsparing  rebuke. 
Never  in  our  time  has  any  one,  after  judging  so  sharp  a  judgment, 
received  from  those  upon  whom  that  judgment  has  fallen,  such  an 
implied  profession  of  perfect  faith  in  his  pure  and  steady  honesty. 
The  lesson  of  yesterday  is  one  which  all  who  have  to  do  with  society, 
and  especially  with  its  errors  and  mistakes,  may  well  take  to  heart. 


192  ME:^roEiAL  of  hokace  gkeeley. 

No  doubt  the  plaudits  of  a  flattered  constituency  arc  sweet ;  no 
doubt  tlie  emoluments  of  the  niisleader  of  the  peojjle  are  sometimes 
magnificent ;  but  the  death  whicli  has  visited  us  has  proved  that 
wealth  is  dross,  that  honors  are  but  emptiness,  corapai-cd  with  a 
fragrant  memory.  There  could  have  been  no  political  trial  for 
Horace  Greeley  living  like  this  social  triumph  of  Horace  Greeley 
dead. 

What  a  concourse  was  that  which  presented  itself  in  the  temple 
in  which  he  was  accustomed  to  worship,  and  in  which,  yesterday, 
surrounded  by  the  sweetest  and  most  touching  emblems  of  mor- 
tality, his  inanimate  frame  was  laid!  Had  he  been  President,  or 
had  he  been  King,  what  nobler  funeral  throng  could  have  gathered 
about  him?  There  were  the  dignity  and  ability  of  the  Republic; 
there  were  the  President  of  the  United  States,  the  Vice-President, 
and  the  Vice-President  elect;  the  Chief-Justice,  venei-able  alike  for 
years,  for  integrity,  and  fur  learning ;  the  representatives  of  the 
Senate,  and  the  representatives  of  the  House.  There  were  those 
who  had  forgotten  the  political  animosities  of  a  lifetime,  side  by  side 
with  those  Avho  had  been  his  life-long  friends,  through  the  evil- and 
good  report  Avhich  fall  to  the  share  of  every  public  man.  There 
were  those  whose  names  have  passed,  or  are  passing,  into  the  liis- 
tory  of  the  Pcpublic,  and  there  were  those  of  a  moi-e  private  char- 
acter who  loved  him,  and  were  none  the  less  loved  by  him.  There 
were  the  lights  of  the  pulpit  and  the  bar,  and,  mingled  with  them, 
those  who  have  lent  honor  and  dignity  to  the  pursuits  of  commerce. 
There  were  liis  associates  in  the  duties,  the  labors,  the  responsibili- 
ties of  the  journal  which  he  founded.  There  were  graceful  and  cul- 
tured Avomen,  to  whom  he  had  stood  in  a  relation  almost  paternal, 
whose  talents  he  had  recognized  and  helped  to  bring  to  a  wider 
recognition  of  so  many  others.  There  were  those  Avho  knew  hira 
only  by  his  teaching,  and  who  wept  for  him  as  one  who  had  brought 
to  them  the  love  of  a  higher  earthly  aim,  the  strength  to  attain  it, 
while  every  heart  grew  sadder  with  tender  sympathies  at  the  pres- 
ence of  the  young  and  doubly-orphaned  daughters  to  whom  so  short 
a  period  of  time  had  brought  such  unusual  sorrows. 

Why  need  we  speak  of  the  demonstrations  outside  the  Avails  of 
the  church  ? — of  the  throngs  of  citizens  Avho  crowded  to  gaze  upon 
the  procession,  Avith  a  respectful  decorum  Avhich  has  never  been 
surpassed  upon  such  an  occasion  in  this  city  ?  If  a  stranger,  know- 
ing nothing  of  the  cause  of  all  this  great  concourse,  had  seen  the 


PEESS  AND   PULPIT  TRIBUTES.  193 

population  of  the  city  gathered  closely  together  upon  the  pavements; 
if  he  had  marked  the  long  procession  wending  its  slow  way  down 
our  chief  thoroughfare ;  if  he  had  observed  upon  every  side  the 
tokens  of  a  general  grief;  if  he  had  noticed  something  like  a  general 
suspension  of  business ;  and  if  he  had  then  been  told  that  all  these 
were  funeral  honors  paid  to  one  who  had  mainly  been  a  teacher  and 
guide  of  the  people,  he  might  well  have  imagined  us  to  be  not 
wholly  insensible  to  the  purest  virtue  and  the  truest  benevolence  ; 
and  he  would  not  have  been  wrong.  Whatever  may  be  our  social 
faults  and  foibles,  whatever  may  be  our  infidelity  to  the  standard 
of  public  duty,  our  ideal  of  that  duty  is  still  a  high  one.  The 
expression  of  popular  feeling  which  was  yesterday  to  be  observed, 
proves  that  the  heart  of  the  American  people  is  in  the  right  place, 
and  that  it  has  a  nicer  power  of  discriminating  between  pretension 
and  sincerity,  between  the  true  in  character  and  the  false,  than 
might  sometimes,  in  the  vicissitudes  of  public  afiairs,  be  supposed. 

And  so  the  mournful  pageant  is  over.  It  remains  for  us  to  thank 
once  more  all  who  have  so  cheerfully  united  to  pay  their  honors  to 
our  departed  friend  and  leader,  and  here,  publicly,  to  recognize  all 
the  kindness  and  assistance  which  have  tempered  this  melancholy 
occasion.  It  remains  for  us,  alas  !  to  return  to  our  redoubled  labors 
and  responsibilities,  still  cheerfully  hoping  that  the  great  example 
which  has  been  our  jjrivilege,  will  helj)  us  in  duties  which  this  death 
has  so  greatly,  we  may  say  so  unspeakably,  augmented. 


PRESS    AND     PULPIT    TRIBUTES. 

A  people's  silent,  heartfelt  soekow. 
[From  the  New  York  Commercial  Advertiser,  Dec.  4.] 
Seldom  has  New  York  witnessed  a  more  impressive  spectacle 
than  this  solemn  funeral  service,  which  for  three  days  has  gone  on 
with  hushed  speech  and  quiet  movement  around  the  dead  body  of 
one  of  our  most  eminent  citizens.  New  York  has  never  failed  in 
exhibitions  of  respect  for  the  illustrious  dead ;  but  never  before  for 
one  in  private  life,  a  simple  citizen  of  the  Republic,  has  the  metrojjo- 
lis  been  so  stirred.  The  mournful  pageantry  associated  with  the 
obsequies  of  Clay  and  Taylor  and  Lincoln  is  recalled.  This,  indeed, 
is  without  the  military  and  civic  emblazonry  which  characterized 
those  displays,  but  it  has  a  depth  and  earnestness  as  profound  and 
heartfelt.     In  this  city  forty  years  of  his  busy  life  were  passed,  and 

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194  MEMORIAL   OF  HORACE   GREELEY. 

here  Mr.  Greeley  has  erected  the  imperishable  monument  to  his 
fame.  Here  his  face  and  figure  were  familiar,  and  here  he  was 
praised  or  condemned,  discussed  from  every  point  of  view,  often 
sharply  and  maliciously,  but  never  without  a  recognition  of  those 
finer  qualities  of  his  nature  which  commend  him  so  powerfully  to 
his  special  friends.  For,  as  we  have  said  before,  Mr.  Greeley  had 
actually  no  enemies,  and  the  statement  is  hardly  too  strong  when 
we  state  that  not  one  harsh  or  condemnatory  word  has  been  uttered 
against  his  character  since  his  mortal  career  closed.  Certainly  no 
man  was  ever  treated  with  more  tender  consideration,  and  no  un- 
toward ending  of  a  life  was  ever  regarded  with  such  sympathy. 
Before  that  open  grave  resentments,  animosities,  asperities,  all  are 
dropped  as  worthless  and  hateful.  Mr.  Greeley  was,  in  many  senses, 
a  representative  American.  A  plain  boy,  born  to  chilling  poverty, 
he  came  to  stand  before  kings,  and  he  wielded  a  pen  whose  potential 
influence  had  a  far  wider  sway  than  that  of  an  imperial  scepter. 
He  never  forgot  his  lowly  surroundings,  and  w^as  never  isolated 
from  the  sympathies  and  the  companions  of  his  early  life.  He 
was  always  the  friend  of  the  poor,  the  advocate  of  well-remuner- 
ated toil,  the  champion  of  the  oppressed  in  all  lands.  No  popular 
uprising  in  behalf  of  enlarged  freedom  or  a  grander  progress  ever 
failed  of  his  ardent  support.  He  was  a  born  Reformer.  His  im- 
pulses always  favored  the  right.  His  known  beneficence  of  nature 
gave  him  popularity  with  the  masses,  who  had  a  personal  liking  for 
him,  and  who  showed  in  Tuesday's  slow  procession  that  they  de- 
plored the  death  of  a  friend.  He  made  mistakes — as  who  has  not  ? — 
but  he  had  a  pei'fect  consciousness  of  his  demerits,  and  never  as- 
sumed to  be  infallible.  So,  mourned  by  the  whole  land,  this  jour- 
nalist goes  to  his  grave,  his  death  witnessing  the  restoration  of  a 
general  harmony  of  feeling  in  all  the  land — such  as  has  not  often 
occurred  in  our  history. 

A  GRIEF  TOO  GREAT  FOR  POMP  AND  PAGEANTRY. 

[From  the  New  York  Express,  Dec.  4.] 
As  we  go  to  press  the  great  city  seems,  as  if  by  common  consent, 
to  have  turned  out  to  follow  the  mortal  remains  of  Horace  Greeley 
to  their  final  resting-place.  All  along  the  thoroughfares  through 
which  the  funeral  cortege  is  to  pass  vast  numbers  of  people  have 
been  standing  for  hours,  and  to  these  additions  are  momentarily 
made.     From  P'orty-fifth  Street  to  the  Battery  this  line  of  humanity 


PEESS  AND   PULPIT  TEIBUTES.  195 

extends  in  solid  column  nubroken,  and  the  impressiveness  of  the 
spectacle,  it  seems  to  us,  is  intensified  rather  than  lessened  by  the 
absence  of  the  militai'y  display  customary  on  occasions  of  the  kind. 
The  universal  feeling  seems  to  be  one  of  genuine,  heartfelt  sorrow, 
and  that  demands  no  theatrical  or  melo-dramatic  display  to  give 
it  free  and  appropriate  expression.  A  man  of  the  people  has  gone 
to  his  rest — and  the  people,  realizing  their  loss,  have  felt  that  their 
bereavement  is  too  real  for  pomp  and  pageantry,  the  glare  and  glit- 
ter with  which  the  world  chooses  to  commit  to  earth  the  ashes  of  its 
great  men.  There  are  external  trappings  of  woe,  indeed,  to  be  seen 
at  almost  every  step ;  but  how  feebly  do  these  symbolize  the  real 
sorrow  which  seems  to  be  depicted  on  the  countenances  of  all  classes 
and  conditions  of  men  ! 

The  last  time  we  saw  Horace  Greeley  alive,  was  from  the  window 
of  The  Express  office.  He  had  just  come  out  of  the  Astor  House, 
i:»reparatory  to  his  departure  for  his  campaign  tour  out  "West,  sur- 
rounded by  an  eager  and  enthusiastic  multitude,  who  cheered  him 
as  "  Our  next  President."  "  Vanity  of  vanities ;  all  is  vanity  ! " 
Horace  Greeley  is  again  passing  the  Astor  House — but  it  is  only  his 
lifeless  remains ;  the  great  crowd  is  there  also,  but  sad  and  subdued 
— not  exultant ;  and  the  old  flag  overhead  is  floating  at  half-mast, 
as  if  to  make  the  transition  and  the  contrast  complete. 

"WHY   THE    PEOPLE    LOVED    HIM. 

\From,  the  Neic  York  Evening  Post^ 

The  honors  shown  his  remains,  then,  are  honors  done  to  his  pro- 
fession ;  but  they  are  also  an  evidence  of  the  consideration  in  which 
he  was  himself  held.  They  prove  that  whatever  opinions  we  may 
have  individually  formed  of  the  intellectual  or  personal  merits  of  the 
subject  of  them,  the  great  body  of  the  people  discovei'ed  in  him 
grounds  for  admiration,  attachment,  and  gratitude.  They  saw  in 
his  efforts  to  enlighten  and  ^-aide  the  sentiments  of  his  fellows  some- 
thing more  than  a  palt7*y  pursuit  of  wealth  or  a  vain  ambition  of 
power  and  fame.  They  saw  in  them  an  earnest  desire  to  do  good, 
to  help  forward  the  better  interests  of  the  community,  and  to  main- 
tain that  spirit  of  justice  and  freedom  which  in  our  hot  and  reckless 
enterprises  ^e  are  apt  to  forget,  but  which  constitutes  the  very  bond 
and  cement,  as  it  does  the  life  and  glory,  of  civilized  society. 

"With  Mr.  Greeley's  political  and  philosophical  views  of  things, 
we  were  not  in  entire  accord ;  his  manner  of  presenting  his  convic- 


196  MEMORIAL   OF  HORACE   GREELEY. 

tions  did  not  always  meet  our  approval ;  but  for  some  objects,  and 
these  among  the  most  momentous  that  ever  divided  the  nation,  we 
labored  long  in  common,  and  we  can  bear  witness  to  the  zeal,  the 
fearlessness,  and  the  vigor  with  which  he  battled  for  the  right.  In 
the  slow  but  intense  and  bitter  controversy  against  Slavery,  which 
has  filled  our  history  for  nearly  fifty  years,  we  found  him  always  a 
powerful  coadjutor,  and  we  doxibt  whether  any  single  instrument 
used  ajrainst  the  griscantic  wrons:  was  more  efiective  in  the  work  of 
its  gradual  overthrow  than  the  press  which  he  managed  with  so 
much  courage  and  determination.  So  far  as  the  history  of  that  con- 
flict has  been  written,  and  so  far  as  it  is  yet  to  be  written,  one  of 
the  most  prominent  places  must  be  given  to  the  sturdy,  unflinching, 
and  persistent  assaiilts  of  The  Ti'ihune  newspaper.  The  more  zeal- 
ous Abolitionists  were  sometimes  apt  to  criticise  the  peculiar  meth- 
ods of  its  warfare,  but  none,  we  think,  will  at  this  day  deny  the 
efficiency  of  its  services. 

It  is  a  wonderful  change  that  has  come  over  the  public  mind 
since  those  services  were  rendered.  When  the  fcAv  journals  in  this 
city  that  dared  to  assert  the  truth  in  regard  to  our  awful  national 
sin  began  their  work,  it  was  a  work  of  danger,  of  loss,  and  of  obloquy. 
The  prejudices  of  the  public  mind  were  so  fierce  that  it  was  as 
much  as  one's  life  was  worth  to  speak  even  timidly  against  the 
horrible  wrong.  The  most  gentle  hint,  the  softest  whisper  of  jier- 
Buasion,  was  likely  to  provoke  a  mob,  or,  if  not  the  mob,  a  violence 
of  denunciation  and  hatred  that  was  anything  but  agreeable  to  its 
victims.  But  now  the  whole  city  mourns  the  loss  of  one  of  these 
early  defenders  of  freedom  and  right.  A  short  month  ago  the 
South,  which  was  particularly  concerned  in  the  evil,  and  felt  the 
most  incensed  and  aggrieved  by  the  hostility  to  it,  adopted  him  as 
its  Presidential  candidate.  Vast  multitudes  of  men  that  once  spoke 
his  name  with  execration  and  scorn  now  throng  the  chamber  where 
his  dead  body  lies,  to  catch  a  last  glimpse  of  his  face,  and  to  drop 
the  last  tear  of  tender  memory  beside  his  coffin. 

Is  it  not  another  proof  that  the  real  forces  of  the  world  are  not 
those  which  science  chiefly  delights  to  celebrate,  but  those  other 
inward  spiritual  forces,  such  as  Righteousness,  Justice,  and  Truth, 
which  lie  behind  the  more  visible  energies,  giving  them  all  the  real 
power  that  they  possess,  and  guiding  them,  not  blindly,  but  intelli- 
gently, to  rational  and  beneficent  ends  ? 


PEESS   AND   PULPIT  TRIBUTES,  197 

THE    PEOPLE    MOUEN    BECAUSE    THET    LOVED    HIH. 

[Fivm  the  Brooklyn  Eagle,  Dec.  4.] 

The  obsequies  of  Horace  Greeley,  which  by  the  close  of  to-day 
•will  have  terminated,  were  the  most  imposing,  all  things  considered, 
of  any  of  modern  times.  There  were  other  qualities,  also,  in  which 
they  have  been  remarkable  beside  the  quality  of  magnitude.  The 
spontaneity,  sincerity,  and  depth  of  sorrow  for  him  and  of  sympathy 
for  his  childi'en  are  imquestionable,  and,  indeed,  universal.  Every 
one  of  these  attributes  is  veined  with  a  thorough  resj^ect  and  ad- 
miration for  the  man,  and  Avith  a  conviction  that  the  good  in  him 
was  greater  than  in  almost  any  other  person  who  might  have  been 
called  away.  Those  of  us  who  knew  Mr.  Greeley  living,  and  who 
knew  him  well,  can  find  in  these  demonstrations  finer  and  more 
gratifying  meaning  than. casual  commentators,  or  even  than  those 
who  form  a  part  of  the  great  official  and  popular  pageant  that  has 
followed  his  body  to  the  grave.  To  some  the  explanation  of  the 
grief  at  Mr.  Greeley's  dejjarture  will  limit  itself  to  a  consideration 
of  the  tragic  events  which  preceded  and  characterized  it.  To  others 
the  profound  impression  will  be  attributed  to  the  sudden  closing  of 
a  very  busy  and  beneficent  life.  Yet  others  will  see  in  the  scenes 
round  his  coffin  only  the  manifestation  of  that  mixture  of  transient 
respect  and  intense  curiosity  folks  feel  when,  probably,  the  most 
talked-about  man  of  his  time  has  been  taken  away.  The  scenes 
may  signalize  motives  such  as  these  in  the  breasts  of  some  who  par- 
ticipate in,  and  of  others  who  contemj)late,  the  proceedings.  But 
as  entire,  or  anything  like  entire,  solution  of  them,  such  judgments 
are  very  inadequate.  Not  the  tragicaluess  of  the  death,  not  the 
loss  of  the  labors  of  Mr.  Greeley,  not  the  tendency  of  mankind 
to  press  around  the  bier  of  the  great,  not  the  curiosity  his  career 
excited,  are  proper  measures  of  the  public  feeling. 

The  causes  lie  deeper,  and  rest  on  more  fundamental  facts.  Let 
the  reader  of  sensibility  and  discrimination  analj'ze  his  oavu  sensa- 
tions, and  he  will  find  them  to  be  the  sensations  of  the  mass.  Men 
and  women  loved  Horace  Greeley.  They  felt  him  to  be  honest  to 
the  core.  They  kncAV  him  to  be  tender  and  charitable.  They  were 
assured  of  his  abilities,  and  for  thirty  years,  in  the  press,  or  on  tlie 
platform,  or  within  the  printed  volume,  they  saw  evidences  of  his 
strong  abilities  and  immense  industry.  Eccentricities  and  infelicities 
of  temper,  manner,  and  expression  could  be  and  were  urged  against 
him.     But  mankind  are  just.     They  felt  sure  tliese  were  but  the 


198  MEMORIAL   OF  HORACE  GREELEY. 

burrs  which  inclosed  the  kernel  of  a  i)ure,  kind  heart  and  of  a  large, 
strong  brain.  The  blade  Greeley  Avielded  was  the  finest  of  the 
steel.  The  man  had  neither  time  nor  taste  wherewith  to  polish  and 
bejewol  the  handle,  nor  a  liking  for  the  infinite  display  of  posture 
and  tactics  which  precedes  and  introduces  the  lesser  execution  of 
gracefuller  contestants.  A  great  deal  of  dogmatic  and  shallow 
assertion  has  been  rebuked  by  the  facts  following  Mr.  Greeley's 
death.  Those  who  complacently  discounted  his  popularity  find 
themselves  discounted.  Those  who  did  not  see  in  the  defeat  of  the 
man  a  month  ago  an  aversion  to  the  circumstances  rather  than  to 
the  candidate  himself,  find  tlieir  vision  enlarged.  Those  who  be- 
lieved that  they  had  accumulated  a  tissue  of  abuse  against  him,  and 
had  piled  up  a  column  of  misrepresentation  which  would  dispose  of 
him  for  all  the  future,  find  that  abuse  forgotten,  but  not  those  who 
vented  it,  that  misrepresentation  despised  and  dissijDated  as  thor- 
oughly as  the  fogs  from  the  sea  are  dissipated  by  the  sun  of  the 
summer  morning.  Looking  through  their  tears,  people  behold  the 
real  Horace  Greeley,  and  the  creature,  half  clown,  half  criminal, 
whom  they  were  solicited  to  believe  he  was,  exists  no  longer,  except 
to  the  condemnation  of  his  creators. 

And  now  the  honest  old  man  sleeps  beside  his  dead  in  the  city 
of  the  dead.  His  warfare  is  accomplished.  History  begins  to  pro- 
portion his  labors  to  the  results  of  his  time.  His  last  woi*d  of  praise 
and  blame  has  been  spoken.  The  period  put  to  his  life  enables 
mankind  to  judge  it  as  a  whole.  In  that  judgment,  will  be  alike 
more  charity  and  justice  than  living  he  ever  received,  albeit  he  felt 
the  absence  of  it  as  keenly  as  ever  the  M'oraanly  heart  in  the  mas- 
sive mind  feels  undeserved  misconstruction.  He  was  true  to  his 
lights.  He  believed  in  the  people.  He  believed  in  the  right,  as  it 
was  given  to  him  to  see  the  right.  He  fought  systems,  not  indivi- 
duals ;  and  he  was  the  first  statesman  of  his  party  to  know  that  his 
principles  had  M'on,  and  that  the  next  thing  to  win  was  the  heart 
of  his  enemy.  "  From  the  topmost  achievement  of  man,"  the  con- 
quest of  his  inbred  prejudices,  "  he  steps  to  the  skies."  Peoples  are 
his  mourners.  Statesmen  and  warriors  are  his  pall-bearers.  And 
as  long  as  the  race  he  did  most  to  deliver  make  the  palmetto  and 
the  orange  tree  quiver  with  their  song  of  redemption,  as  long  as 
the  North  he  instructed,  the  "West  whose  resources  his  pen  intro- 
duced to  mankind,  the  South  which  he  came  at  last  to  understand, 
and  which  at  the  last  came  to  understand  him — as  long  as  these 


PKESS  Ajs:d  pulpit  tributes.  1&9 

sections  and  their  citizens  have  praise  for  ingenuousness,  emulation 
for  integrity,  pity  for  suffering,  pride  in  thorough  work  thoroughly 
done,  and  a  respect  for  manhood  the  deepest  in  the  most  earnest, 
so  long  will  endure  and  magnify  the  excellence,  the  incentive,  and 
the  exalted  example  of  Horace  Greeley. 

THE    APOSTLE    OF   FREEDOM. 

[From  the  PMladelpMa  Telegraph,  Bee.  4.] 
To-day  the  nation  reverently  laid  in  his  long  rest  one  of  the 
greatest  of  her  sons — a  man  who,  in  the  peculiar  features  of  his 
grand  and  simple  life,  had  no  antetype  among  us,  and  whose  place, 
once  vacant,  will  never  be  filled.  Yet  Horace  Greeley,  more,  per- 
haps, than  any  man  who  has  gone  before  him,  was  a  typical  Ameri- 
can— an  American  the  product  of  our  better,  later  culture,  differing 
as  much  from  the  acrid,  speculative  Puritan  of  New  England  as 
from  the  unreasoning  hot-hearted  Southerner. 

The  circumstances  of  his  life  Were  such  as  only  could  have 
existed  in  this  country.  The  possibility  of  a  rise  so  rapid  and  direct 
from  his  birth  in  poverty  to  the  position  of  a  candidate  for  the  ruler- 
ship  of  a  nation ;  the  possibility  of  his  being  helped  to  such  rule  by 
his  especial  trade  and  profession  ;  the  possibility,  more  than  all,  of 
acquiring  his  profound  yet  practical  fund  of  knowledge  without  edu- 
cation, and  in  the  midst  of  almost  iinparalleled  labor,  both  manual  and 
mental,  in  earning  his  livelihood,  belonged  to  our  national  life.  The 
features  of  his  character,  his  very  idiosyncrasies,  too,  were  altogether 
American.  His  bull-dog  fidelity  to  his  own  idea  of  the  right  in  busi- 
ness, politics,  or  religion,  side  by  side  with  the  broadest,  most  genial 
charity  for  the  opinions  of  others  ;  the  energy  possessing  him  like  a 
demon  impelling  him  up  and  up  day  by  day ;  his  willingness  to 
accept  and  try  any  theory  Avhich  promised  reform ;  his  contempt  for 
precedent ;  his  intense  love  for  those  dear  to  him ;  his  tenderness, 
his  profundity,  his  devout,  childlike  faith  ;  his  very  style,  powerful, 
nervous,  lucid,  choosing  to  be  coarse  rather  than  weak — even  his 
bodily  strength  and  the  disease  which  conquered  it  at  last — were  all 
American,  belonging  to  the  stronger  caste  of  men,  though  seldom 
united  in  one. 

So  far  his  country  may  claim  Horace  Greeley.  But  once  or 
twice  in  a  century,  God  sends  into  this  needy  Avorld  men  qualified  to 
be  its  mighty  helpers  or  hinderers ;  to  deal  with  it  greatly  and  in 
the  mass  ;  to  drag  humanity  backward  toward  ignorance  and  bond- 


200  MEMOEIAL   OF  HORACE  GREELEY. 

age,  or  up  and  out  into  the  freer  air  where  God  is,  and  knowledge 
and  liberty.  Two  months  ago,  few  even  of  his  best  friends  would 
have  claimed  for  this  dead  man  the  place  of  one  of  the  world's  few 
pioneers.  His  common-place  story  was  so  familiar  to  us ;  the  short 
trowsers  and  white  coat  and  squeaking  voice,  such  everyday  subjects 
of  laughter,  that  even  our  homage  was  paid  with  a  good-humored 
toleration.  Now  death  has  touched  and  made  him  immortal  The 
body  which  was  such  easy  spoil  for  caricature,  the  coat  and  hat, 
liave  fallen  away  like  a  shell,  and  we  know  that  one  of  the  great 
leaders  of  the  world  has  been  called  to  another  life  and  higher  work. 
No  man,  since  his  Master,  whom  he  served  with  such  humble  single- 
ness of  heart,  has  dedicated  his  powers,  his  labor,  and  his  life  to  his 
brother  man  with  more  fidelity  than  did  Horace  Greeley.  He  has 
been  called  one  of  the  greatest  of  Uving  journalists ;  but  The 
Tribune  was  nevar  a  mere  newspaper  nor  advertising  medium ;  it 
was  a  tremendous  intellectual  and  moral  engine,  which  he  originated 
and  used  to  mold  the  age  in  which  he  lived.     He  did  so  mold  it. 

The  one  country  which  professed  to  offer  a  refuge  to  the  bonds- 
man and  oppressed  of  every  nation  on  earth,  and  an  example  of  the 
workings  of  free  institutions,  was  but  a  gigantic  fraud  and  lie  so 
long  as  her  negroes  stood  helpless  and  bound  To  Horace  Greeley, 
and  T'he  Tribune  more  than  to  any  earthly  power  was  it  owing  that 
the  yoke  of  slavery  was  lifted  from  the  necks  of  four  millions  of 
people,  and  that  America  stands  to-day  where  never  nation  stood 
before  in  the  work  of  regenerating  and  uplifting  mankind. 

He  has  made  history  for  the  present  and  for  all  time.  For  the 
rest,  many  of  us  have  accused  him  of  what  appeared  to  us  foolish 
and  impolitic  acts,  but  none  of  us  deny  that,  with  a  sublime  integrity 
of  purpose,  he,  to  use  his  dying  words,  "  did  what  seemed  to  him 
the  right  thing,"  and  braved  through  his  whole  life  public  opinion 
"  when  he  tliouglit  it  wrong  and  knew  it  to  be  merciless." 

The  great  impersonal  power  of  public  opinion,  however  purblind 
and  swayed  by  trifles  it  may  be,  has  a  heart  warm  as  any  human 
being.  A  few  weeks  ago  it  was  ready  to  flout  and  underrate  this 
man  when  he  was  offered  as  its  ruler.  Now,  when  death  has  put 
its  seal  upon  him,  it  stands  uncovered  by  his  grave  and  recognizes  in 
the  great  editor  the  ruler  of  its  highest  thought  in  years  gone  by, 
and  the  apostle  of  freedom  who  has  brought  his  message  to  human- 
ity and  gone  to  his  reward. 


*        PEESS  AXD   PULPIT  TEIBUTES.  201 

A    SPECTACLE     UNPARALLELED    IX    HISTORY. 

[I^'om  the  Springfield  Republican,  Dec.  4.] 
The  country  beholds,  to-day,  a  spectacle  unparalleled  in  its  his- 
tory. The  greatest  journalist  of  the  age  of  journalism  passes  on  to 
his  reward ;  a  President,  successful  in  reelection,  sits  in  mourning, 
undoubtedly  genuine,  by  the  remains  of  his  rival  for  that  high  office. 
The  country  is  touched  in  a  peculiar  degree.  The  embodiment  of 
personal  journalism,  Mr.  Greeley  had  a  hold  on  the  hearts  of  indi- 
vidual men,  such  as  can  be  gained  only  by  visiting  them  daily  or 
weekly  for  thirty  years  through  a  powerful  newspaper.  The  recent 
breaking  up  of  old  parties,  ties,  and  prejudices,  the  political  marriage 
of  a  party  and  men  who  were  once  sworn  foes,  these  circumstances 
put  the  country  in  a  mood  of  tenderness,  when  to  mourn  the  loss  of 
a  great  citizen  is  a  sweet,  jDroud  privilege. 

Mr.  Greeley's  obsequies  to-day  will  be  conducted  by  two  of  the 
most  eloquent  and  representative  preachers  in  the  country,  both  his 
life-long  friends.  Besides  the  President  and  some  other  members  of 
the  Cabinet,  the  old  and  new  Vice-Presidents,  and  the  Chief-Justice 
of  the  nation,  Mr.  Greeley's  old  friends  will  be  present  in  great 
numbers  as  individuals,  as  fellow-journalists  and  printers,  and  as 
political  associates. 

The  old  poHtical  organizations,  whose  aims  and  attainments  he 
outlived,  and  the  new  ones,  whose  support  he  cherished  and  whose 
purposes  had  been  ennobled  to  match  his  own,  will  assemble  in  unity 
and  kind  oblivion  of  difference.  Groups  will,  gather  there  whose 
biographies  make  the  history  of  the  country  for  thirty  years.  Of 
all  those  present,  none  will  mourn  a  peer  so  truly  as  Charles  Sum- 
ner. Seward  and  Greeley — how  fast  the  great  warriors  of  the  anti- 
slavery  crusade  are  now  dropping  into  the  arms  of  quick-coming 
death ! — thenceforth  life  eternal. 

A   NOBLE    AND    GOOD    CITIZEN. 

[F>'07n  the  Liberal  Christian,  Dec.  7.] 
Death  has  recently  robbed  this  community  and  the  country  of  a 
man  whom,  despite  any  defects  in  his  judgment  and  manners,  or  any 
spots  or  scars  which  party  and  popular  leadership  may  have  left 
upon  him,  we  must  pronounce  a  noble  and  good  citizen.  His  char- 
acter was  essentially  one  of  devotion  to  truth,  duty,  and  usefulness. 
He  came  up  under  the  greatest  discouragments  and  out  of  the 
roughest  soil,  and  by  virtue  of  the  vigor  of  his  will  and  the  loftiness 


202  MEMORIAL   OF    HORACE   GREELEY.    ' 

of  his  aim,  his  patience  of  labor  and  his  love  of  honest  independence, 
slowly  rooted  liimself  in  the  confidence  and  respect  of  his  fellow-cit- 
izens, grew  into  popularity  and  power,  and  used  them  mainly  not 
for  private  advancement  or  pecuniary  profit,  but  for  the  good  of  his 
country  and  his  race.  There  is  no  need  to  exaggerate  his  talents, 
worth,  and  services,  nor  to  conceal  his  defects,  excesses,  or  mistakes, 
to  justify  his  honorable  place  in  the  esteem  of  the  American  people. 
He  did  not  spare  the  faults  of  his  competitors  for  power  and  for 
l)lace,  and  he  never  asked  others  to  spare  him.  He  did  not  disguise 
his  own  life  or  opinions,  nor  pretend  to  be  morally  what  he  was 
not.  He  knew  his  own  failings,  and  the  country  knew  them.  But 
it  never  vitiated  the  claim  he  had  upon  the  nation's  gratitude 
as  one  of  the  most  earnest,  devoted,  and  disinterested  of  her  public 
men. 

May  God  give  us  more  citizens  with  his  virtues,  and  we  will 
readily  forgive  only  such  faults  as  his  if  they  must  needs  come  with 
them.  It  is,  perhaps,  the  greatest  and  simplest  praise  Mr,  Greeley 
could  receive  to  say,  that  with  the  religious  thoughts  of  last  Sun- 
day over  our  whole  country,  naturally  and  irresistibly  mingled  ten- 
der and  regretful  recollections  of  the  great  political  leader  and 
champion  of  human  rights  who  had  just  passed  suddenly  away  and 
lay  waithig  public  bui-ial.  It  is  not  much  to  be  able  to  sa)-  that  a 
man's  character  and  sjjirit  and  life  have  power  to  conquer  in  his 
death  partisan  dislikes,  just  criticisms  upon  his  policy,  and  all  consid- 
eration of  his  special  services  or  mistakes,  and  to  fasten  the  thoughts 
of  a  great  country  upon  what  manner  of  man  he  was  '?  Happily,  too, 
his  was  a  character  based  upon  Christian  faith  and  hopes — a  charac- 
ter so  manifestly  in  alliance  with  the  spirit  and  precepts  of  our  relig- 
ion, that  even  his  championship  of  a  theological  system  rejected  by 
most  of  his  countrymen  could  not  conceal  or  prejudice  a  certain 
evangelical  quality  in  it.  A  Christian  of  a  positive  and  professed 
faith,  a  church-goer,  at  times  even  a  preacher,  he  was  able  to  recon- 
cile a  busj',  partisan,  active,  and  aggressive  political  and  editorial 
career,  \\'ith  an  open,  earnest,  and  intelligent  claim  to  the  religious 
character  and  the  Christian  name,  and  to  establish  his  rights  to  be 
counted  among  the  lovers  of  God  and  man,  of  Christ  and  immortality. 

HIS    LIFE    COMPLETE    IX    GREATNESS. 
[From  the  BicJimond  Enquirer.'] 
"  It  is  Done  !" — These,  it  is  said,  were  Mr.  Greeley's  last  words. 


PKESS  AND   PULPIT  TEIBUTES.  203 

They  are  not  unlike  in  spirit  tlie  dying  utterances  of  John  Quincy 
Adams,  whom  he,  in  many  respects,  resembled  in  life.  "  This  is  the 
last  of  life — I  am  content."  What  was  done  ?  His  long  and  earn- 
est life,  its  joys,  its  sorrows,  its  triumphs,  its  defeats,  its  cares,  its 
pains,  its  anxieties,  the  heartaches,  and  the  thousand  ills  this  flesh  is 
heir  to — all  was  done !  His  career  was  finished,  and  we  may  say 
the  measure  of  his  greatness  was  completed,  for  no  honors  the  pub- 
lic could  have  heaped  upon  his  head  would  have  added  one  laurel  to 
his  brow.  But  what  a  train  of  reflection  such  a  death  awakens  !  A 
few  months  since  and  he  stood  among  us  the  foremost  man  of  all  this 
nation  in  mind  and  influence,  surrounded  by  devoted  followers,  who 
rejoiced  in  the  colossal  grandeur  of  their  leader,  enjoying  the  aflec- 
tion  of  a  beloved  wife,  and  happy  in  the  love  of  a  beautiful  and  ac- 
complished daughter,  whose  name  was  already  a  household  word  in 
the  hand ;  and  now  he  not  only  lies  in  the  cold  abstraction  of  death, 
but  the  cherished  partner  of  his  bosom  is  also  in  her  grave — and  that 
dutiful  daughter  is  overwhelmed  by  the  grief  of  her  accumulated 
sorrows ;  while  his  followers,  broken  by  defeat,  dispersed  and 
stricken  with  grief,  stand  uncovered  around  the  bier  of  their  chief. 
Truly  are  the  ways  of  Providence  inscrutable  and  past  finding  out. 
Then,  too,  when  we  contemplate  the  real  magnitude  of  death's  work, 
•we  are  struck  with  awe  in  the  very  presence  of  the  destroyer. 
Earthquakes  may  shatter  this  fair  round  globe  of  ours ;  storms,  and 
floods,  and  fires  devastate,  ravage,  and  lay  it  waste,  but  what  com- 
parison is  there  between  the  destruction  these  elements  bring  in 
their  train  and  the  breaking  to  pieces,  the  dissolving  of  so  vast  a 
globe  as  the  mind  of  Horace  Greeley  ?  Within  that  little  sphere, 
now  hollow,  empty,  and  lifeless,  but  a  week  since  all  the  knowledge 
of  this  world  was  centered — all  that  its  libraries  contained  of  that 
the  power  of  master  mind  could  evoke  from  the  vasty  deeps  of 
thought  was  stored,  ready  for  humanity's  use,  whenever  called  into 
action — a  gjlobe  gfreater  than  this  earth  itself,  for  it  held  more  than 
all  this  sphere,  reaching  afar  ofi"  beyond  its  boundaries,  and  grasping 
the  secrets  of  the  uttermost  universe,  delving  into  the  very  center 
and  forcing  from  every  form  of  nature  its  most  hidden  secrets,  and 
now  it  lies  there  in  ruins !  Xot  one  thought  or  aspiration  left.  The 
soul  that  was  taken  from  the  universe  to  be  garnered  there,  restored 
to  it  back  again,  and  the  poor  casket,  empty,  useless,  crushed,  pow- 
erless— a  mere  lump  of  clay  !  It  does,  indeed,  make  some  difference, 
after  all,  when  a  great  scholar  dies.     They  are  the  brief  abstracts  of 


204  MEMORIAL   OF  HORACE   GREELEY. 

this  universal  world — the  storehouses  of  its  piled-up  treasures — and 
when  one  of  these  falls,  the  fall  is  greater  than  the  fall  of  a  city. 

But  we  will  not  pursue  this  vein  of  thought,  Avhich  leads  so  far 
into  the  unknown  depths ;  yet  well  may  we  ask  if  all  this  labor  of  a 
"busy  life,"  this  storing  up  of  knowledge,  this  creating  of  new 
worlds  of  thought,  must  come  to  nothingness  ?  No  ;  it  can  not  be 
that  such  is  the  be  all  and  end  all  of  so  much  greatness  and  good- 
ness— and  hence  it  was  only  of  his  mission  here  the  dying  philoso- 
pher spoke  when,  with  his  last  breath,  he  murmured,  "  It  is  done  !  " 
and  peacefully  passed  away  to  another  and  better  world,  where 
that  which  was  hidden  shall  be  made  plain,  and  all  that  was  in 
doubt  become  a  certainty. 

A    MORAL    GIANT. 

IFrom  the  Jewish  Times.] 

The  American  people,  we  may  say  the  civilized  world,  mourns 
the  loss  of  a  manVho  has  intertwined  himself  with  the  hearts  of 
every  member  of  the  civilized  community,  has  gained  the  love  and 
admiration  of  the  people  as  no  other  public  man  has  done  since  the 
departure  from  earth  of  the  Fathers  of  the  Republic.  His  heart  was 
as  tender  as  his  mind  was  great,  and  in  almost  every  position  that 
he  took  in  the  great  questions  that  agitated  the  country  for  the  last 
thirty  years,  may  be  traced  the  spring  of  sympathy  witli  tlie  suffer- 
ings, wants,  and  needs  of  the  toiling,  laboring  masses,  as  much  as 
the  power  of  intellectual  genius.  Feeling  for  and  witli  humanity 
seemed  to  be  the  guiding  motive  of  his  actions ;  the  principles  of 
truth,  justice,  and  riglit,  whether  in  accord  with  or  opposed  to  the 
popular  sentinient,  the  ideal  for  which  he  strove,  and  to  the  service 
of  wliich  he  devoted  his  life. 

He  was  eminently  a  type  of  the  American  "self-made"  man,  Avho 
looks  to  his  own  efforts  for  the  success  to  be  achieved  in  life,  and 
carves  out  his  fortune  from  the  resources  offered  by  his  own  genius 
and  talent.  The  son  of  a  farmer,  and  receiving  only  a  common  rudi- 
mentary schooling,  he  nevertheless  achieved  great  eminence  in  the 
i-epublic  of  letters,  as  a  journalist  witliout  peer,  as  a  statesman  and 
thinker,  ranking  with  the  first  minds  of  the  age. 

The  American  people  sat,  as  it  were,  for  the  last  thirty  years,  at 
the  feet  of  this  sage,  drinking  from  the  founts  of  his  wisdom,  taking 
courage  from  the  moral  fortitude  whicli  he  knew  so  well  to  impart, 
in  times  of  sorest  trial  awaitins:  with  anxious  solicitude  his  counsel 


PEESS   AND   PULPIT  TRIBUTES.  205 

and  advice,  receiving  from  his  lips  the  watchword  Avhcnevcr  great 
questions  awaited  the  decision  of  the  nation. 

A  tower  of  strength  and  pillar  of  firmness  in  defense  of  the  great 
principles  of  human  rights,  universal  manhood,  indiscriminating 
equality,  he  smote  the  opponents  of  these  heaven-born  truths  with 
the  scathing  scorn  and  indignation  that  are  only  found  in  bosoms 
pure  and  uncontaminated,  where  the  reflex  of  Divine  virtue  is  not 
tarnished  by  selfishness  and  short-lived  ambition.  So  lofty  was  his 
chai'acter,  so  firm  his  courage,  so  unflinching  his  attitude,  when  once 
taken  on  the  side  that  seemed  to  him  right  and  just,  that  friends  and 
foes  alike  had  to  bow  before  this  moral  giant,  acknowledging  the 
honesty  of  his  motives,  the  purity  of  his  impulses. 

JOUENALIST,    PHILANTHKOPIST,    HUMANITARIAN. 

[I¥om  the  Rural  New-  Yorker. 1 
Horace  Greeley  is  dead,  and  a  nation  mourns  the  loss  of  its  great- 
est journalist,  philanthropist,  and  humanitarian !  The  Tribune  of 
the  People — the  friend  and  protector  of  the  poor  and  oppressed  of 
every  race  and  color — has  gone  to  his  reward.  Though  so  lately 
defeated  as  a  candidate  for  the  highest  office  in  the  gift  of  the 
American  people,  no  death  has  occurred  during  the  past  twenty-five 
years  that  created  so  much  sadness  and  mourning  among  the  masses 
as  has  this  seemingly  sudden  and  untimely  event.  Not  within  that 
period  have  the  people  of  the  whole  country  been  so  shocked  and 
affected  as  by  the  announcement  of  the  demise  of  Horace  Greeley 
(except  by  the  assassination  of  President  Lincoln).  Never  have 
we  known,  during  thirty  years'  experience  as  a  journalist,  such 
tributes  paid  to  the  character,  career,  and  memory  of  any  private 
citizen,  as  are  now  emanating  from  people,  press,  and  pulpit  over 
the  whole  continent,  to  the  goodness,  virtues,  and  talents  of  the 
justly  distinguished  deceased.  Such  pseans  of  praise — such  tributes 
of  respect  and  expressions  of  regret  and  sorrow  and  sadness — are 
indeed  rare,  and  show  a  wide  knowledge  and  appreciation  of  the 
high  character,  purity,  and  ability  of  the  greatest  of  American 
journalists. 

A   GPvEAT-HEAETED   CHAMPION   OF   HUMAN   EIGHTS. 
[From  the  Philadelphia  Sunday-School  Times.'] 
In  the  death  of  Horace  Greeley  our  common  humanity  loses  a 
great-heart  champion  of  its  rights;  our  country  one  of  lier  noblest 


206  MEMORIAL   OF  HORACE   GREELEY. 

and  purest  patriots;  and  our  day  and  generation  a  most  illustrious 
light  and  guide.  All  classes  and  conditions  unite  to  do  honor  to 
his  memory.  For  what  he  was  in  himself,  individually,  socially, 
professionally;  for  what  he  did  by  a  life-long  use  of  his  splendid 
gifts ;  for  his  goodness  of  heart,  his  helpfulness  of  hand,  his  warmth 
of  human  sympathy,  and  breadth  and  strength  of  human  charity, 
the  world  will  never  cease  to  be  his  debtor.  We  would  pay  our 
poor  tribute  of  affectionate  respect  to  his  memory,  and  commend 
his  name  and  his  virtues  to  the  Christian  teachers  and  workei's  of 
the  age,  and  to  the  emulation  of  the  rising  youth  of  our  land  and 
of  the  world. 

A   VETERA:^"   PEOTECTIONIST. 

[From  the  Iron  Age.] 
No  man  has  done  so  much  as  he  to  establish  and  popularize 
the  fundamental  truth  of  political  economy,  that  the  supreme  policy 
of  every  nation  is  to  develop  its  own  productive  resources,  since, 
whether  it  consumes  its  own  products,  or  exchanges  them  for  the 
products  of  other  countries,  it  can  have  no  more  either  to  consume 
or  exchange  than  it  produces — and  it  is  difficult  to  overestimate 
the  weight  of  his  personal  influence  in  securing  the  enactment  of 
wise  and  beneficent  laws  for  the  protection  of  home  industry 
against  unrestricted  foreign  competition.  Though  compelled  by 
the  exigencies  of  the  late  political  canvass  to  abandon  for  a  time 
the  advocacy  of  tariff  legislation,  he  remained  unshaken  in  princi- 
ple, and  all  who  are  interested  in  the  welfare  of  our  great  indus- 
tries, especially  the  production  and  manufacture  of  iron,  have  rea- 
son to  remember  the  labors  of  his  long  and  useful  life  with  profound 
and  permanent  gratitude.  So,  also,  is  it  with  the  great  body  of 
working-men  in  all  trades  and  callings.  No  man  who  strove  Avith 
honest  purposes  to  benefit  his  fellows  and  contribute  something 
of  value  to  the  progress  of  the  times,  failed  to  find  in  him  a  sym- 
pathetic friend  and  ardent  co-worker,  and  his  memory  will  long  re- 
main cherished  in  the  great  and  warm  heart  of  the  American  people. 

HIS   NAME   niS    ONLY   EPITAPH. 

[F)-otn  the  Kansas  City  {Mo.)  Times.'] 

Thus,  in  his  last  couch,  lies  Horace  Greeley,  sleeping  evermore, 

and  he  needs  no  epitaph  more  touching  than  his  simple  name ;  none 

could  be  truer  to  him ;  none  could  waken  so  many  memories.     To 

us  who  are  in  the  walks  of  the  profession  he  has  so  adorned,  and  to 


PRESS   AND   PULPIT  TRIBUTES.  207 

•which  he  has  lent  such  a  mighty  prestige,  his  loss  comes  as  a  be- 
reavement that  is  filial.  "We  had  grown  up  around  him  almost  as 
his  children,  rejoicing  in  his  strength,  and  glorying  in  his  greatness. 
It  was  as  though  each  one  of  us  had  plucked  a  laurel  leaf  from  his 
chaplet,  wearing  it  more  proudly  than  those  we  won  ourselves. 
Along  with  Bennett  and  Raymond,  gone  before  him,  he  had  made 
modern  journalism  what  it  is,  and  they  three  held  letters  patent  of 
its  glory  and  its  grandeur.  And  until  some  new  world  of  news  and 
newspaperdom  is  found  to  conquer,  they  three  must  stand  at  the 
head,  and  to  them  all  who  come  after  must  pay  the  royalty  of  their 
inventor's  right. 

Among  his  mourners  there  will  be  none  sadder  than  the  people 
of  the  South.  They  had  found  in  him  a  sturdy  friend  when  their 
need  was  sorest,  and  when  their  hope  was  least  and  lowest.  He 
came  to  them  as  succor  in  the  waste  when  all  is  given  up  to  hope- 
lessness and  dissolution.  His  was  a  cheery  voice  of  magnanimity 
and  good-will  crying  out  in  the  strong  center  of  the  conqueror's 
camp  for  mercy  and  forbearance  toward  the  vanquished,  and  he 
could  not  be  unheeded  or  unheard.  There  are  few  Southern  heads 
that  will  not  be  uncovered,  few  Southern  hearts  that  will  not  be 
sad,  and  few  Southern  eyes  that  will  be  unmoistened  beside  the 
grave  of  Horace  Greeley,  erstwhile  the  Southern's  bitterest,  savag- 
est,  and  most  hated  foe. 

Let  the  old  man  sleep.  His  has  been  a  long  and  unflagging  life- 
work,  and  he  is  tired  and  toil-worn.  And  just  as  the  shades  of  his 
last,  long  night  had  begun  to  deepen  the  twilight  of  his  life,  disaster 
and  sorrow  had  come  when  he  needed  rather  rest  and  joy  to  smooth 
his  pathway  down  to  the  river.  And  so  he  died,  just  as  the  day 
yesterday  was  done  and  night  hovered  with  the  angels  that  waited 
for  his  life  and  soul  to  come  out  to  them  and  fly  away. 

God  bless  the  old  man's  memory ! 

A   TRUE    AXD    EXALTED    PATRIOT. 

[From  the  Harrisburg  Patriot.'] 
The  place  of  Horace  Greeley  in  the  journalism  and  politics  of 
this  country  will  not  soon  be  filled.  Of  the  public  men  of  the 
United  States  there  is  not  one  whose  loss  will  be  so  deeply  felt. 
During  his  whole  career  his  influence  on  public  opinion  has  been 
strong  and  decided.  His  views  on  all  public  questions  have  been 
eagerly  sought,  and  thousands  of  those  who  ranked  as  leaders  were 


208  MEMORIAL   OF    HORACE  GREELEY. 

careful  not  to  move  until  Horace  Greeley  had  spoken  in  Tlic  Trib- 
une. In  his  earnest  devotion  to  political  and  social  reform  he  tested 
many  theories,  but  adhered  to  such  only  as  his  vigorous  judgment 
approved.  "When  his  stand  was  once  taken,  he  Avas  obstinate  and 
inflexible.  No  man  possessed  in  a  higher  degree  what  the  French 
phrase  the  courage  of  his  convictions. 

In  journalism  he  united  to  an  industry  that  never  flagged,  skill 
in  controversy  which  few  cared  to  encounter,  and  a  mastery  of  "  pure 
English  undefiled  "  that  was  unequaled.  If  his  scorn  of  an  enemy 
was  terrible,  he  was  easily  placated  by  kindness.  His  philanthropy 
was  so  large  as  to  embrace  all  races  of  men  and  all  creeds.  He  was 
a  true  and  exalted  patriot.  His  entire  life  was  occupied  in  schemes 
for  the  amelioration  of  the  condition  of  his  fellow-men  and  for  the 
progress  of  his  country.  But  the  busy  brain  is  at  rest.  The  great 
heart  of  Horace  Greeley  has  ceased  to  beat.  Though  a  simple  re- 
publican citizen,  surrounded  by  none  of  the  pomp  and  trappings  of 
power,  he  will  be  borne  to  the  grave  amid  the  sincere  lamentations 
of  a  people  of  whom  he  was  one  of  the  best  and  noblest  types. 

A   NOBLE   VICTIM    HAS    BEEN    SACRIFICED. 

\From  the  'WestlicTie  Post.l 
The  worst  fears  which  we  were  unfortunately  obliged  to  express 
to  our  readers  have  only  too  promptly  found  their  sad  confirmation. 
Horace  Greeley  yesterday  succumbed  to  his  bodily  and  spiritual 
suflerincrs.  This  is  mournful  intellisrence,  which,  althousjh  not  unex- 
pected,  will  call  forth  interest  and  concern  not  only  everywhere  in 
America,  but  far  beyond  the  boundaries  of  this  country.  It  is  no 
common  spirit,  no  ordinary  heart  which  have  been  broken  in  the 
stniggle  against  an  overpowering  fate ;  it  is  not  a  hand  that  can 
easily  be  replaced,  and  that  has  now  written  its  last  line ;  no  every- 
day life  and  labor  terminated  as  the  eyes  of  Horace  Greeley  closed 
forever.  What  this  man  was  to  his  people,  and  what  he  alone  could 
be  to  them,  an  impartial  posterity  would  have  acknowledged  under 
every  circumstance.  Now,  in  the  sight  of  his  bier,  even  his  contem- 
poraries may  have  found  a  great  and  noble  spirit,  a  pure,  humane 
heart  to  honor.  It  has  much  erred — the  heart  of  the  old  philoso- 
pher ;  but  it  has  also  loved  much,  and  hence  much  must  be  forgiven 
him.  It  is  possible  that  his  last  error,  to  have  considered  himself 
the  most  suitable  candidate  for  the  Presidency,  was  also  his  great- 
est.    But  has  he  not  severely  enough  expiated  this  error,  if  such  it 


PRESS   AND   PULPIT  TRIBUTES.  209 

were,  and  should  not  those  in  turn  do  penance,  penance  in  sackcloth 
and  ashes,  whose  poisonous  darts,  though  they  may  have  only  been 
intended  to  tear  his  skin,  nevertheless  penetrated  into  his  breast  and 
into  his  inmost  vitals  ?  It  is  the  fault  of  the  American  people  if  to- 
day they  stand  abashed,  abashed  before  themselves  and  before  for- 
eign nations,  because  they  hound  to  death  the  best  citizens ;  because, 
with  frivolous  levity,  they  allowed  an  election  campaign  to  extend 
to  a  fierce  contest  for  property,  life,  and  honor.  A  noble  victim  has 
been  sacrificed.  Will  those  who  recently  waged  an  ungovernable 
party  conflict  against  each  other  extend  their  hands  in  reconciliation 
over  the  grave  of  Greeley  ?  We  would  gladly  hope  it,  but  scarcely 
dare  to  hope.  The  lion  has  tasted  blood,  and  the  easy  victory 
which,  reversing  a  well-known  Republican  phrase,  the  sword  has 
here  gained  over  the  pen,  will  warn  us  as  an  evil  omen.  It  is  jDOSsi- 
ble  that  we  deceive  ourselves,  and  that  the  melancholy  sentiments 
which  have  been  inspired  by  such  a  mission  of  death  leads  us  to  look 
more  darkly  than  usual  in  the  future.  Be  it  so.  But  to-day,  and  at 
this  grave,  we  have  only  pain  and  sadness. 

THE    FEIEJfD    OF    niTMANITT. 

[From  the  Detroit  Union.] 
Whatever  else  may  be  said  of  Horace  Greeley's  career,  whatever 
opinion  posterity  in  the  light  of  known  results  may  form  of  his  judg- 
ment, the  universal  testimony  of  those  who  have  known  him  in  life 
will  be  that  he  was  an  honest  man.  To  say  that  he  had  his  weak- 
nesses, is  to  say  that  he  was  a  finite  being.  To  say  that  he  had 
faults,  is  to  say  that  he  was  human.  But  we  venture  to  say  that 
when  the  sum  of  his  character  is  made  up  it  will  be  found  that  few 
men  deserve  a  greater  meed  of  praise  for  all  the  virtues  that  adorn 
human  life,  or  cause  their  memory  to  be  embalmed  in  the  hearts  of 
their  fellow-men.  Probably,  no  man  of  modern  times  has  devoted 
more  energy,  and  certainly  no  one  has  devoted  more  talent,  to  the 
single  object  of  ameliorating  the  condition  of  the  human  race,  of 
lifting  up  the  lowly  and  down-trodden,  than  Horace  Greeley.  His 
long  life  may  be  said  to  have  been  devoted  to  that,  and  that  alone. 
Whatever  apparent  diversions  have  been  made  were  all  subordi- 
nated to  the  one  grand  mission  of  his  life.  His  death  will  be  attrib- 
uted by  some,  no  doubt,  to  disappointment  at  not  having  reached 
the  highest  object  of  political  ambition.  We  do  not  believe  it. 
What  need  had  Horace  Greeley  of  that  doubtful  honor  ?    Would. 

14 


210  MEMORIAL   OF  HOKACE   GKEELEY. 

the  Presicloiicy,  in  this  generation,  have  added  one  laurel  to  his 
Lrow,  or  increased  his  already  world-wide  lame  ?  What  honor  is 
added  to  the  eagle  who  soars  to  the  highest  mountain-tops  when  it 
is  known  that  the  crawling  reptile  has  been  there  before  him  ?  The 
)iame  of  Horace  Greeley  will  be  green  in  the  memory  of  posterity 
when  his  own  monument  of  stone  shall  have  crumbled,  and  when 
many  of  those  who  are  now  considered  more  fortunate  than  he  shall 
be  forgotten.  The  poor  and  the  needy,  the  oppressed  and  the  down- 
trodden, will  cherish  his  memory,  and  in  their  hearts  erect  a  monu- 
ment that  will  last  forever.  Peace  to  his  ashes  !  The  toils,  trials, 
and  struggles  of  life  are  over.  He  has  nobly  fulfilled  his  mission  on 
earth.  The  highest  praise  we  can  bestow  upon  him  is,  that  the 
woi'ld  is  better  for  his  having  lived. 

A    GREAT   LOSS    TO    JOUKNALISM. 

[From  tlie  Boston  Times.'] 

In  Mr.  Greeley's  sudden  and  lamentable  decease,  modern  jour- 
nalism loses  its  most  prominent  individual  product  and  devotee. 
Newspapers  will  never  again  be  built  up  so  entirely  with  individual 
force  and  talent  as  The  Trlbioie  has  been;  and  so  Mr.  Greeley 
passes  away  as  the  last,  or  almost  the  last,  representative  of  a  former 
school,  which  his  untiring  energy  had  thoroughly  modernized. 

He  was,  as  a  journalist,  rather  an  advocate  than  tl)e  model  of  a 
running  commentator.  He  did  not  even  share  the  essayist's  gifts 
in  his  endowments  as  a  public  writer.  Current  events  interested 
liis  miud  chiefly,  as  he  could  set  up  a  question  over  them,  and  at 
once  take  a  side.  He  was  in  every  sense  a  controversialist.  Even 
when  he  attempted  perfect  candor  he  insensibly  verged  strongly 
upon  the  dogmatic.  His  mental  restlessness  was  incessant,  and  it 
was  unquestionably  that  which  killed  him.  He  had  a  purpose  in 
the  very  act  of  sleep,  which  was  only  that  he  might  wake  again. 
Temperate  and  simple  in  his  habits,  with  such  an  impulse  forever 
2)usliiiig  him  on  to  exertion,  he  could  "  toil  terribly ; "  and  his 
"American  Conflict,"  written  in  the  intervals  of  the  crowded  labors 
of  every  day,  stands  an  enduring  monument  of  Ins  talents  and  in- 
dustry. A  man  of  his  omnipresence,  figuratively  speaking,  will  be 
missed  from  among  men  more  than  they  can  instantly  comprehend. 
There  will  be  no  public  question  come  up  for  a  long  time  that  will 
not  freshly  remind  us  all  of  the  death  of  Horace  Greeley.  If  his 
spirit  is  permitted  to  look  down  over  his  earthly  career  in  reflective 


PRESS   AXD   PULPIT  TRIBUTES.  211 

review,  it  can  not  but  furnish  him  the  profoundest  satisfaction  to 
know  that  his  last  days  were  given  to  a  sincere  and  earnest  effort 
to  heal  the  animosities  of  his  fellow-countrymen,  and  reunite  in  abid- 
ing peace  the  people  of  long-sundered  sections. 

BKST   KNOAV^r    MAN    OF    HIS    TIME. 

[From  the  Bridgeport  Standard.'] 
It  is  seldom  that  the  death  of  one  man  comes  home  more  nearly 
to  so  many  individuals  than  has  that  of  Horace  Greeley.  The  fact 
that  he  has  occupied  so  large  a  portion  of  the  public  attention  since 
last  May  will  account  for  this  in  part ;  but  aside  from  that  fact,  he 
was  known  and  his  influence  felt  by  hundreds  of  thousands,  as  few 
men  ever  are  known.  Conducting  for  years  a  journal  which  he 
made  one  of  the  leading  newspapers  of  the  country,  if  not  of  the 
world ;  identifying  himself  with  and  infusing  so  much  of  his  person- 
ality into  the  tone  and  conduct  of  that  journal  on  all  public  affairs, 
he  had  made  it  a  personal  organ,  in  a  great  degree,  so  that  when  it 
spoke  he  spoke,  and  the  country  at  large  regarded  it  as  almost  ex- 
clusively the  exponent  of  his  personal  opinions.  Indeed,  thousands 
of  people,  the  country  over,  took  and  read  it  as  such  alone,  and, 
therefore,  the  announcement  to-day  of  the  death  of  this  widely- 
known  and  influential  journalist  would  have  ci'eated  a  profound 
sensation  even  had  not  recent  events  given  him  still  greater  promi- 
nence. Few  men  have  been  more  widely  known,  and  few  need  to 
have  less  told  of  their  personal  histories.  When  the  excitements 
of  the  recent  campaign  shall  have  entirely  died  away,  Avhen  the  his- 
tory of  the  unfortunate  and  disastrous  combinations,  bctAveen  which 
Mr.  Greeley  was  ground  as  between  the  upper  and  nether  mill- 
stone, shall  be  more  generally  known,  then  it  will  be  ample  time  to 
draw  the  moral  of  his  connection  therewith,  and  with  it  adorn  the 
tale  of  his  life.  Till  that  time,  let  the  dead  rest  in  that  peace  which 
life  failed  to  give,  and  in  the  "  blissftd  hope  of  a  happy  resurrection." 

A  MODEL  TO  THE  YOUTH  OF  HIS  COUNTRY. 

[From  tlie  Naslmlle  Union  and  American.'] 
Mr.  Greeley  has  passed  into  history.  His  last  days  were  saddened 
by  a  stroke  of  domestic  grief  in  which  he  had  the  sympathy  of  the 
whole  country ;  one  whose  watching  and  the  acute  distress  it  caused 
doubtless  contributed  to  the  event  now  so  deeply  deplored.  We 
are  loth  to  believe  that  that  majestic  brain  had  passed  under  an 


212  MEMOEIAL   OF   HORACE   GEEELEY. 

eclipse,  but  conjectjire  that  its  signs  of  weakness  were  but  the  pre- 
monition of  the  dissolution  so  shortly  following.  Had  it  been  other- 
wise, death  was  preferable  to  its  living  ruin.  It  is  to  be  hoped  tliat 
his  last  moments  were  peaceful  and  conscious,  for  in  the  midst  of 
the  griefs  which  went  with  him  to  his  tomb,  there  was  one  thought 
of  earthly  matters  which  could  bring  solace.  Tlie  people  of  the 
South,  whom  he  had  so  long  opposed,  were  at  peace  with  him,  and 
despite  of  political  differences,  the  entire  people  of  the  country  he 
had  so  ably  served,  were  prejiared  to  receive  his  record  in  a  temper 
of  impartial  justice.  That  record  need  not  now  be  discussed  with 
freedom.  He  wrought  powerfully,  and  the  results  in  which  he  was 
60  conspicuous  an  actor  have  yet  to  be  measured.  Whether  their 
quantum  of  good  or  ill  Avill  outweigh,  the  future  can  alone  decide. 
As  a  high  type  of  man — self-reliant,  resolute,  upright,  and  fearless, 
dignifying  labor  both  by  speech  and  example — he  is  a  commendable 
model  to  the  youth  of  his  country ;  and,  as  a  statesman,  philosopher, 
and  reformer,  deserves  a  noble  niche  in  the  pantheon  of  the  great 
characters  of  America. 

AN   INSPIRED    WORKER. 

[From  the  Memphis  Appeal^ 
It  is  wholly  useless  to  write  any  eulogium  of  Horace  Greeley. 
For  months  past  the  press  and  orators  of  xYmerica  have  been  devoted 
to  disquisitions  involving  his  fame,  character,  and  fitness  for  the 
highest  human  office.  There  is  not  a  mental,  moral,  or  personal 
peculiarity  of  the  man  which  has  not  been  closely  scanned.  In  the 
world's  eyes  he  grew  greater  as  he  was  more  thoroughly  well 
known.  His  speeches  at  this  hour  are  deemed  more  wonderful  pro- 
ductions than  those  written  expositions  of  political  economy  which 
adorned  the  pages  of  The  Trihime.  Unlike  Goldsmith,  he  talked  as 
well  as  he  wrote — like  an  angel ;  like  one  inspired.  The  chann  of 
his  simple  logic  was  not  more  resistless  than  his  mellifluous  sen- 
tences were  of  marvelous  elegance  and  matchless  force.  Most 
ungraceful  and  unattractive  was  the  manner  of  the  man  when  he 
stood  upon  the  rostrum ;  but  no  listener  ever  turned  away  his  face 
when  the  old  man  eloquent,  in  his  somber  monotone,  drawled  out 
sentences  as  full  of  poetry  as  of  statesmanlike  wisdom.  To  describe 
Greeley's  person  Avould  be  as  vain  as  any  allusion  to  his  partisan  his- 
tory. Everywhere,  in  almost  every  household  in  the  land,  the  form 
and  face  of  Horace  Greeley  are   recognized   in   pictures  of  every 


PRESS  AND   PULPIT   TEIBUTES.  213 

degree  of  excellence,  and  these  will  soon  become  recollections  as  of 
the  olden  time,  invested  with  associations  as  sadly  pleasing  as  those 
that  come  before  us  when  some  old  familiar  aspect,  some  voice  whose 
accents  Ave  loved  to  dwell  upon,  rises  up  in  the  dream-land  of  mem- 
ory. 

THE   CHIEF   OP   JOUESTALISTS. 

[From  five  Detroit  Free  Press.] 
"We  do  not  propose  to  wi'ite  a  panegyric  of  Horace  Greeley,  for 
it  would  be  useless.  His  deeds  speak  for  themselves,  and  are  famil- 
iar to  almost  every  one  in  these  United  States.  Of  all  the  bright 
luminaries  which  American  journalism  has  produced,  Horace  Gree- 
ley stands  at  the  head.  In  vigorous  expression  none  could  surpass, 
if  any  could  even  equal  him.  The  terms  which  he  used  were  often 
harsh,  but  they  were  always  expressive ;  and  if  his  epithets  were  oc- 
casionally not  the  most  polite,  it  was  owing  more  to  his  impulsive 
nature  than  to  any  real  lack  of  courtesy.  Policy  was  not  a  compo- 
nent part  of  Horace  Greeley's  nature.  Had  he  been  more  politic,  he 
would  liave  been  more  successful  as  a  politician.  But  if  he  did  not 
possess  to  a  marked  degree  those  arts  by  which  men  are  very  often 
enabled  to  ride  into  place  and  power,  he  was  stJ'ong  with  the  people. 
It  was  to  them  that  he  appealed;  it  was  upon  them  that  he  relied, 
and  his  greatest  success  in  the  management  of  The  Tribune  showed 
that  his  trust  was  well  founded. 

ALWAYS   I>"^    EAEXEST. 

[From  the  Trenton  True  American.'] 
Mr.  Greeley's  personal  and  political  career  are  a  part  of  the 
country's  history.  It  is  to  no  purpose  now  to  criticise  favorably  or 
unfavoi'ably  either.  It  must  be  said  of  him,  however,  that  in  all  his 
convictions  he  was  always  as  earnest  as  he  was  vigorous  in  their 
advocacy.  Prominently  identified  in  the  discussion,  and  to  a  large 
degree  in  the  determination,  of  the  leading  questions  that  agitated 
the  country  for  over  thirty  years,  it  is  no  exaggeration  to  say  that 
he  thought  for  millions.  Though  he  was  strong  in  most  of  his  con- 
victions even  to  fanaticism,  though  he  was  peculiar  in  his  habits  even 
to  eccentricity,  and  though  his  opinions  on  some  questions  were  to 
many  mischievous  and  abhorr^ent,  his  life  was  in  other  respects 
exemplary  and  bore  its  good  lesson.  Self-taught  and  self-made,  he 
owed  all  he  achieved  and  all  he  possessed  to  hard  study,  liard 
work. 


214  MEMORIAL   OF  HORACE   GREELEY. 

UE    SOAVED    GOOD    SEED. 

[From  tlie  Providence  Herald,  Dec.  4.] 
Greeley  is  buried  to-day.  Weak  mortality,  otherwise  incapable 
of  expressing  its  grief  and  appreciation,  resorts  to  signs  and  sym- 
bols. The  imposing  catafalque,  the  immortelles  and  cypress,  the 
mournful  procession — all  which  may  be  counterfeited  by  pride  or  in- 
terest— shall  attend  his  interment,  evoked  by  a  recognition,  sponta- 
neous as  disinterested,  of  his  benefactions  to  the  country  and  man- 
kind. Let  the  pageant  pass — it  is  not  his  memorial.  AVhencver,  iu 
future  years,  Ave  shall  see  the  bloom  of  the  bud  he  cultivated,  Ave 
Avill  remember  him.  "When  some  sentence  or  phrase  of  his  shall  sug- 
gest or  impel  a  humane  measure,  his  presence  Avith  us  Avill  not  be 
forgotten.  He  sowed  good  seed ;  let  us  Avatch  the  fruit  and  recol- 
lect the  planter.  Beneath  his  parent  turf,  he  receives  to-day  more 
eulogy  than  in  life  he  could  evoke.  But  his  rcAvard  is  not  yet.  If 
in  his  "  ashes  live  their  Avonted  fires,"  he  may  for  time  to  come  look 
upon  our  reapers  as  they  gather  tlie  harvest  he  scattered  iu  the 
germ. 

A    BLESSIXG    TO    HIS    AGE. 

[From  the  Metropolitan  Record.'] 

Perhaps  no  man  in  the  community  Avas  so  widely  known  as  the 
dead  journali-st — certainly  no  name  was  more  familiar  than  his 
throughout  the  length  and  breadth  of  tlie  land.  His  extreme  opin- 
ions on  many  questions,  and  his  fearlessness  in  giving  them  utter- 
ance, impressed  his  name  on  the  public  memory,  and  his  large 
benevolence  and  real  and  imputed  personal  eccentricities,  contrib- 
uted not  a  little  to  extended  popularity. 

There  Avas  nothing  of  the  impersonal  journalist  about  Mr.  Gree- 
ley. Whatever  he  Avrote  Avas  impressed  A\dth  the  stamp  of  distinct 
individuality,  and  Avas  recognized  to  be  his  by  the  most  uncritical 
reader.  He  left  his  impress  not  only  on  the  journal  Avhich  he 
founded,  but  on  the  age  in  which  he  lived.  He  did  his  share,  and 
more  than  his  share,  in  molding  and  consolidating  the  Republican 
party,  and  in  creating  and  exciting  public  sentiment  on  many  im- 
portant political  issues.  But  Avhile  passing  these  over  as  irrelevant, 
Ave  can  not  forbear  resting  for  a  moment  on  the  manly  generosity 
with  which,  at  the  close  of  the  war,  he  advocated  the  rights  of  the 
Southern  people,  throwing  behind  him  all  the  bitterness  of  the  past, 
and  trampling  on  the  cherished  prejudices  of  old  associates.  In  that 
case  his  natural  benevolence  stimulated  his  sense  of  justice,  and  a 


PRESS   A^D   PULPIT  TRIBUTES.  215 

kiuflly  lieart  suggested  the  wisest  policy.  For,  had  his  opinion  pre- 
vailed, and  his  advice  been  acted  on,  the  page  of  history  that  re- 
counts the  treatment  meted  out  to  the  South  after  the  war  had 
ceased  would  have  been  free  from  blot  or  stain. 

GOOD  FEIEXD  AND  TRUE  HEKO. 

[Fro7n  the  IndianapoUs  News.'] 
With  Mr.  Greeley's  character,  except  so  far  as  it  was  known 
to  the  world  through  the  mediums  of  his  public  acts  and  writings, 
we  are  not  familiar.  We  knew  him  only  as  the  public  knew  him. 
As  the  faithful  jiatriot,  the  unswerving  friend  of  down-trodden 
humanity;  as  the  large-hearted  and  large-brained  advocate  of  prog- 
ress in  every  form.  He  was  not  perfection,  for  he  was  human. 
His  character  was  full  of  corners  ;  he  had  oddities  of  manner  and 
speech;  he  had  quirks  and  inequalities  of  disposition;  he  had  many 
faults,  many  singularities,  which  always  made  him  a  good  subject 
for  hearty  abuse,  keen  satire,  or  sneering  ridicule.  But  his  life, 
taken  as  a  whole,  was  rounded,  consistent,  beautiful.  It  was  fruit- 
ful of  good  works.  Built  upon  a  solid  foundation,  with  every  stone 
carefully  laid  and  well  cemented,  it  toM^ers  above  its  fellows  like 
the  pyramids  of  Cheops,  and  will  last  as  long  as  human  reputa- 
tion lasts.  When  the  j^assions  of  the  day  have  become  cold  and 
lifeless,  when  the  events  in  which  he.  bore  so  great  a  part  shall 
have  come  so  far  into  the  past  that  they  can  be  examined  with- 
out prejudice  or  unfairness,  the  name  of  Horace  Greeley  will  stand 
out  in  the  brightness  of  history  as  a  true  patriot,  a  representative 
American,  and  a  great  man.  "  Good  Friend,  true  Hero,  hail  and 
farewell." 

FULL    OF    GREAT    AND    NOBLE    QUALITIES. 

[Fro}n  tJie  South  ISforwalk  Sentinel.'] 
We  honor  Horace  Greeley  as  one  of  the  most  remarkable  men 
America  has  produced.  We  honor  him  as  a  genius  of  original  and 
marked  individuality,  who  has  stamped  the  impression  of  himself 
upon  the  world  in  Vleep  and  indelible  characters.  We  honor  him 
as  a  fine  example  of  the  New  England,  principle  which  opens  to 
the  lowest  in  the  social  scale  the  opportunities  for  the  highest  of 
which  one  is  capable,  regardless  of  wealth,  rank,  or  family  jirestige. 
Born  in  poverty;  a  farmer's  son,  and  a  school-boy  in  the  common 
school  in  New  Hamshire ;  an  apprentice  lad  in  a  printhig-office  in 
Vermont,  he  carved  his  way  by  his  own  independence  and  energy 


216  MEMOEIAL   OF  HORACE   GEEELEY. 

to  his  high  place  as  the  foremost  of  American  editors,  the  most 
influential  molder  of  public  opinion  in  the  country.  "We  honor 
him  as  a  representative  American,  who  loved  the  Republican  princi- 
ples of  liberty  and  equal  rights  with  a  passionate  enthusiasm,  and 
through  good  report  and  evil  report,  in  success  and  defeat,  was 
faithful  to  his  principles  to  the  end.  "We  honor  him  as  the  greatest 
champion  of  the  Republican  party,  whose  newspaper  educated  the 
masses  of  the  people  in  their  hatred  to  slavery,  and,  in  the  des- 
perate struggle  for  its  overthrow,  sustained  the  courage  and  stira- 
nlated  the  devotion  of  the  nation.  "We  honor  him  for  his  Christian 
philanthropy,  always  espousing  the  cause  of  the  weak,  the  igno- 
rant, the  suffering,  the  oppressed,  and  for  his  incorruptible  honesty 
and  integrity,  making  him  ever  faithful  to  his  convictions  amid  scorn 
and  obloquy,  and  devoted  to  purity  and  reform,  often  at  the  expense 
of  success  and  popularity.  In  fact,  it  would  be  hard  to  find  a  man 
who  combined  more  great  and  noble  qualities  of  head  and  heart  than 
Horace  Greeley.  What  other  man  could  have  constrained  his  most 
virulent  enemies,  even  for  a  fancied  political  advantage,  to  nomi- 
nate and  support  him  as  their  candidate  for  the  highest  ofiice  ?  His 
principal  faults  were  only  exaggerated  expressions  of  his  central 
excellences,  the  largeness  and  breadth  of  his  humanity,  and  the 
goodness  of  his  heart. 

It  is  fitting  that  the  nation  itself  should  mourn  his  death,  as  it 
has  done  with  a  unanimity  of  grief  and  regret,  which  shows  how 
strong  a  hold  he  had  on  the  hearts  of  the  American  people. 

THE    GOOD    HE    HAS    DONE    "WILL   LIVE    AFTER    HlJf. 

[Fro7n  the  Charleston  {S.  C.)  News.] 

He  must  have  a  breast  of  adamant  who  is  not  moved  and  sad- 
dened by  the  tidings  that  Horace  Greeley,  worn  down  by  public 
care  and  private  grief,  has  passed  away  forever  from  the  scenes  in 
which  he  was  so  conspicuous  an  actor. 

Now  that  he  is  gone,  let  us  remember  only  his  breadth  of  mind, 
his  simplicity  of  character,  his  manliness  and  truth  ;  and  let  us  hope 
that  he  enjoys  that  peace  which  was  his  watchword  in  the  fray, 
and  which  he  labored  so  hard  to  secure,  beyond  peradventure,  to 
the  American  people. 

The  good  he  has  done  will  live  after  him.  TVhen  the  country 
is  again  one  in  thought  and  in  feeling,  it  will  not  be  forgotten  that 
the  last  days  of  Mr.  Greeley's  life  were  spent  in  the  effort  to  reform 


PRESS  AND   PULPIT  TRIBUTES.  217 

public  abuses,  to  abolish  proscriptive  legislation,  and  to  knit  the 
North  and  South  together  in  bonds  of  friendship  and  mutual  trust. 
Then  the  seed  which  he  has  sown  will  bear  its  fruit,  and,  in  the 
memory  of  posterity,  the  dead  Horace  Greeley  will  have  his  reward. 

ONE    OF   nature's   noblemen. 
[From  the  Portland  {Me.)  Argus.'\ 

What  a  lesson  has  the  world  in  this  sad  event,  of  the  mutability 
of  human  affairs,  and  what  a  theme  for  thoughtful  contemplation, 
in  the  career  we  have  briefly  sketched — the  poor  farm  boy,  the 
journeyman  printer,  the  struggling  journalist,  success  through  long 
and  patient  toil,  the  great  editor,  political  power  and  honors,  until 
the  highest  place  within  the  gift  of  his  fellow-countrymen  seemed 
almost  within  his  grasp.  And  the  grand  aspirations  and  expecta- 
tions of  a  jDcaceful  and  quiet  lingering  in  the  riper  years,  to  con- 
template and  enjoy  the  fruits  of  his  toil,  scattered  in  a  few  short 
days,  as  it  were,  and  all  that  is  earthly  of  the  great  man  lies  cold 
and  inanimate.  But  his  noble  soul  has  ascended  to  the  bosom  of 
God,  to  join  that  gentle  spirit  which  shared  his  sorrows  and  joys  so 
long,  and  was  but  so  recently  called  away. 

Impartial  history  will  write  Horace  Greeley  as  one  of  the  great 
and  good  men  of  the  times  in  which  he  lived — one  "  whose  faults 
leaned  to  virtue's  side," — and  one  to  whom  the  words  of  the  poet 
can  be  fitly  applied  : 

.    "  Nature  might  stand  up  and  say 

To  all  the  world,  He  was  a  man." 

A   GEEAT   AND   GOOD   MAN. 

[From  (he  Titumlle  (Penn)  Courier.'] 
History  will  vindicate  Mr.  Greeley's  political  theories  on  Re- 
construction, and  we  will  not  now,  at  a  time  when  the  whole  nation 
mourns  his  departure  from  the  scenes  of  eai'th,  discuss  them.  In 
this  solemn  hour,  let  party  contention  and  strife  cease.  Let  all 
unite,  of  whatever  party  or  creed,  in  paying  their  respects  to  that 
great  and  good  man,  who  has  been  called  by  God  from  the  scenes 
of  earth  to  that  shadowy,  mysterious  land  which  we  only  see  by 
the  eye  of  faith.  A  great,  a  good  man  is  gone,  one  whose  history 
for  the  last  quarter  of  a  century  almost  comprises  the  history  of  our 
country  for  that  period.  Every  American  citizen  has  reason  to 
mourn  the  death  of  Horace  Greeley;  the  native-born  white  man, 


218  MEMORIAL   OF   HORACE   GREELEY. 

because  he  was  a  representative  of  the  men  who  can  grow  up  under 
Republican  institutions ;  the  foreign-born  citizen,  because  his  sym- 
pathies always  went  out  to  those  who,  in  the  countries  of  tlie  old 
woi-ld,  rose  up  against  ancient  wrong  and  oppression ;  the  colored 
man,  because  to  Horace  Greeley,  more  than  to  any  other  man,  under 
God,  he  owes  his  freedom ;  he  it  was  who  struck  the  hardest  and 
most  telling  blows  at  the  institution  of  human  slavery.  Of  the 
events  of  the  late  campaign  we  M'ill  not  speak.  They  have  passed 
into  history,  and  we  have  no  fears  of  the  verdict  of  impartial  his- 
tory on  all  the  political  acts  of  the  illustrious  subject  of  this  brief 
and  important  sketch. 

oxE  or  THE  people's  preachers. 
{Tlie  ItcT.  Frank  Russell,  at  the  Park  Congregational  Church,  Brooklyn.] 
The  Rev.  Mr.  Russell  took  for  his  text,  yesterday,  the  words  of 
Saul,  when  he  saw  the  people  in  tears  at  the  tidings  of  sad  events 
brought  by  the  messengers :  "  What  aileth  the  people,  that  they 
weep  '?"  To  meet  a  company  weeping,  he  said,  in  the  course  of  his 
sermon,  brings  a  hush  and  an  earnest  inquiry  as  to  the  cause.  King 
Saul  saw  no  such  tears  as  the  last  week  has  beheld.  He  might  have 
spoken  of  the  grief  of  the  court,  or  the  neighborhood,  or  the  com- 
munity;  we  can  say,  "  "What  aileth  the  people  ?" 

On  the  evening  of  the  day  after  Thanksgiving  the  subdued 
whispering  began.  Toiling  thousands  were  hurrying  homeward.  Face 
after  face  flushed  and  sobered  as  some  one  would  say,  "  Horace 
Greeley  is  dead."  The  chilling  message  was  repeated  in  place  of 
greetings  at  the  threshold,  and  many  thousands  of  homes  were 
saddened.  The  telegraph  snapped  the  s]>!-ing  of  the  sorrowful  news 
in  every  city  and  village  in  our  huid,  "  Horace  Greeley  is  dead." 
The  swift  current  of  life's  work  halted  as  though  the  frost  chain  had 
checked  it ;  as  suddenly  as  the  lightning  flash,  and  every  nerve  felt  it. 
Pens  dropped  in  the  counting-room ;  goods  fell  from  the  hands  of 
salesmen,  as  some  one  sadly  said,  "  Horace  Greeley  is  dead."  Every 
street  in  America  had  groups  gathered  to  hear  some  one  tell  it,  and 
there  were  quick  steps  to  carry  the  mournful  word  home.  That 
Friday  night's  supper  was  almost  tasteless  in  milliors  of  h.omes  all 
along  from  Maine  to  Mexico,  from  Oregon  to  Florida.  Families 
gathered  about  the  fireside  and  talked  of  Horace  Greeley  ;  some 
fathers  had  seen  him,  and  told  their  children  of  him;  beyond  the 
Rocky  Mountains,  in  many  huts,  the  jiicture  was  produced,  and  the 


PEESS   AXD   PTTLPIT  TKIBUTES.  219 

book.  Neither  did  the  ocean  stay  the  news.  In  foreign  and  distant 
lands,  all  men  that  read  breathed  this  most  mystic  name,  and  felt 
the  sadness  in  their  heart. 

I  was  in  New  York  on  that  fatal  Sabbath  in  July,  1871,  and 
before  I  heard  of  any  disaster  I  saw  concern  and  sorrow  on  a  hun- 
dred faces,  and  I  said,  "What  aileth  the  people?"  until  I  heard 
them  teUing  one  another  that  the  Westfield  had  exploded,  killing  a 
hundred  persons.  The  hush  that  softened  every  voice  and  calmed 
every  face  will  never  be  forgotten.  That  same  look  has  come  again 
on  the  faces  of  every  community,  as  though  smoke  of  a  sad  disaster 
had  swept  through  the  air.  Saturday,  Sunday,  and  Monday  did  not 
dispel,  but  only  deepened  the  sadness.  Tuesday,  all  day  long,  the 
crowd  filed  along  the  coffin  to  look  upon  that  cold  face,  grown  broad 
and  full  by  the  pressure  behind  it  of  one  of  the  largest  hearts  that 
humanity  ever  knew,  and  many  kissed  the  lips  now  still,  that  had 
spoken  the  kindest  and  wisest  words  that  the  present  generation  has 
ever  heard.  But  Wednesday  the  great  spectacle  became  sublime. 
A  greater  funeral  was  never  witnessed  at  the  house  of  a  citizen.  No 
building,  or  square,  could  contain  the  peoj^le.  Tickets  of  admission 
to  tlie  church  were  issued  to  a  few,  1,500  or  more.  It  was  my  priv- 
ilege to  receive  one,  and  to  witness  the  unparalleled  scene,  resem- 
bling in  its  greatness,  and  in  the  fullness  of  its  sentiment,  the  obse- 
quies of  the  murdered  President.  The  nation  came  to  do  honors  to 
the  great  chief  The  newly  reelected  Executive  sat  near  with  bowed 
head  and  sincere  grief;  about  him  were  the  counselors  of  the  nation. 
The  Senate  was  there,  the  House  of  Representatives,  the  officers  of 
our  Commonwealth.  'Twas  no  parade  or  show.  None  could  look 
into  those  noble,  earnest  faces  without  seeing  the  sad  throbbings  of 
heavy  hearts.  The  societies  were  there,  for  they  all  chiimed  kin- 
ship with  the  departed  hero.  The  emblems  were  most  appropriate. 
There  Avas  the  ax,  and  across  it  lay  the  pen,  the  sign  of  labor,  the 
implements  of  power,  industry,  culture,  peace.  No  sword  was 
there,  but  the  plow  rested  beside  the  coffin.  Mightier,  lovelier  these 
than  the  sword — noble,  mighty  as  it  is !  The  Scripture  read,  the 
words  spoken,  the  prayer,  the  sweet,  touching  songs,  and  the  great 
procession  started  through  the  crowded  streets  to  the  grave.  How 
far  did  the  audience  extend  in  the  streets  ?  I  said, "  I  would  walk  to 
see."  The  broad  street  held  a  miglity  gathering.  From  Forty-fifth 
Street  to  Fourteenth  one  assembly;  the  street  packed  full,  save  one 
broad   aisle   in   the   center;  stoops  full,  windows   crowded,  roofs 


220  MEMORIAL   OF  HOEACE  GREELEY. 

croTrded,  side-streets  blockaded  full,  surely  it  would  not  reach  far  ;  to 
Fourteenth  Street  the  same  audience  of  anxious  faces ;  to  Broadway 
the  same  ;  down  Broadway  just  as  densely  packed  ;  a  long  walk, 
all  the  same  to  Park  Row  ;  and  farther,  all  the  way  to  the  ferry — an 
audience  four  and  a  half  miles  long  ;  one  center  aisle  only ;  stoops, 
windows  and  roofs  for  galleries,  and  all  full  to  the  utmost,  and  many 
buildings,  draped  with  sorrow.  Count  but  one  tier  on  each  side — • 
there  were  more — and  only  seven  people  deep — there  were  more  ; 
and  the  number  is  more  than  200,000 — and  there  were  more. 

The  finest  sermon  I  ever  heard  was  along  the  line  of  these  anx- 
ious people,  in  their  fragmentary  remarks.  "  Every  reform  claimed 
him,"  said  one.  "  No  life  has  affected  our  country  as  much  as  his." 
"Journalism  has  lost  a  great  chief."  "  So  has  every  other  industry," 
was  the  answer.  "  Wliat  a  mind  he  had  !"  one  said.  "  And  what 
a  heart,  too !"  was  the  reply.  "  After  all,  he  had  no  enemies." 
"  He  was  the  best  friend  the  city  ever  had,"  was  the  soliloquy  of  an 
aged  laboring  man.  "  Or  the  country  either,"  a  stranger  added. 
"  He  was  always  on  the  side  of  the  working-people  and  the  poor." 
These  were  some  of  the  expressions  that  indicate  the  sentiment 
that  swelled  the  hearts  of  the  great  concourse  of  people  who  patiently 
waited  for  the  procession  to  pass.  At  Park  Row  I  purchased  an 
evening  newspaper  on  my  way,  and  found  in  it  the  report  of  the 
addresses  just  listened  to  at  the  church.  'Twas  as  though  a  spirit 
had  done  it.  Then  I  remembered  that  he  who  was  now  a  spirit  had 
done  more  living  than  any  other  to  make  the  newspaper  so  wonder- 
ful in  its  power. 

The  great  life  that  has  closed  can  not  fail  to  bring  great  lessons 
for  us.  I  hear  some  clamor  about  the  proprieties  of  the  pulpit.  It 
is  a  preacher  whose  life  we  consider  to-day — not  an  actor.  Few 
ministers  of  the  Gospel  have  stood  in  more  Christian  pulpits  than 
Horace  Greeley,  and  I  am  thankful  that  he  has  stood  here  in  my 
place,  and  preached  the  reasonableness  and  the  righteousness  of  tem- 
perance. The  people  moui-n  him,  and  it  is  the  work  of  the  church 
to  inquire  with  quickest  sympathy,  "  What  aileth  the  people  ?  " 

Dr.  Russell  then  proceeded  to  briefly  sketch  the  life  of  ]Mr,  Gree- 
ley, and  the  lessons  it  had  for  all  classes  and  ages,  saying,  among 
other  things: 

In  1841,  when  he  was  thirty  years  of  age,  he  began  the  publica- 
tion of  The  Trihune,  a  newspaper  that  has  had  no  equal  for  true 
principles  and  power  Avith  the  people.     It  has  been  the  nation's 


PEESS   AND   PULPIT   TKIBUTES.  221 

schoolmaster ;  Mr.  Greeley,  through  it,  has  been  the  great  teacher 
of  the  American  people.  Many  times  in  controversies,  many  times 
unpopular,  his  memory  is  not  tarnished  by  a  single  instance  when 
principle  has  been  forsaken.  *  *  *  The  best  minds  sought 
eagerly  for  the  fruits  of  his  pen,  and  by  usual  hesitancy  in  forming 
conclusions  until  they  had  heard  him  speak,  testified  to  his  leader- 
ship in  matters  of  profound  thought.  *  *  *  A  pen  less  idle  was 
not  known,  no  one  more  correct.  It  was  a  part  of  his  life  to  pour 
thought  and  influence  into  the  lives  of  others  the  world  over.  His 
pupils  are  scattered  afar ;  in  shops  and  stores,  in  counting-rooms  and 
on  ship-board,  in  Wall  Street  and  on  the  prairie,  in  the  pulpit  and 
following  the  plow,  more  recognize  him  as  a  teacher,  perhaps,  tlian 
any  other  man.  It  is  a  mighty  army  that  has  lost  a  mighty  com- 
mander. *  *  *  g^t  jiQ  more  superior  was  his  intellect  than  his 
disposition.  The  mildness  that  beamed  from  his  great  face  did  not 
belie  his  great  heart.  He  was  a  man  of  great  kindness ;  not  perfect 
in  disposition,  but  his  faults  sink  almost  to  nothingness  when  his 
excellences  are  considered.  He  was  impatient  with  shams  and  with 
frauds,  and  did  exj^ress  it ;  but  he  was  personally  kind  to  his  ene- 
mies. He  could  not  cherish  malice,  but  he  could  strike  bitter  bloAvs 
against  any  meanness.  *  *  *  Friends  and  foes,  adherents  and 
opponents,  all  bow  their  heads  in  true  regard  for  his  principles,  and 
say  that  his  life  never  belied  the  Gospel,  which  his  record  j^reaches. 
Not  faultless,  and  certainly  not  claiming  it,  but  living  unselfishly  for 
others,  a  loving,  afiectionate  husband  and  father,  treasuring  the 
Scriptures  and  frequently  quoting  them,  and  looking  foi-  the  immor- 
tality which  he  has  now  gained. 

No  civilian  on  earth  was  ever  so  mourned,  or  buried  with  such 
honors.  Tiie  nation  bowed  in  sorrow  to  do  him  homage  as  a  great 
teacher,  benefactor,  and  friend.  No  year  of  our  President's  life  has 
so  endeared  him  to  the  citizens  of  the  United  States  as  the  greatness 
that  he  has  shown  in  a  week ;  declining  the  sociality  of  friends  when 
Mr.  Greeley  was  thought  to  be  dying,  and  coming,  an  humble 
mourner,  to  sit  by  the  cofiln  in  the  funeral  service.  It  is  a  sad  dawn- 
ing, but  as  this  glorious  sunlight  streams  in  and  scatters  the  dark- 
ness and  the  poisonous  vapors  of  political  contest,  the  whole  picture 
looks  difierent  to  most  people.  There  was  not  much  difference  of 
principles  after  all;  put  the  platforms  together,  there  is  little  choice. 
Thank  God  for  our  country,  and  its  grand  and  Christian  principles. 
Did  you  notice  how  the  thirty-five  votes  were  cast  at  the  Electoral 


222  MEirORIAL   OF  HORACE    GREELEY. 

College  at  Albany  ?  They  did  their  civic  duty,  but  they  did  not 
leave  the  room  without  recording  their  noble  sentiment  for  him 
Avhose  corpse,  at  that  very  hour,  \yas  surrounded  by  mourning 
statesmen.     Thank  God  for  our  noble  commonwealth  ! 

THE    FRUITS    OF    A    WOKTIIT    LIFE. 

[The  Bev.  E.  C.  Siceetzer,  at  the  Bleecker  Street  Unirersalist  Church,  New  Tork.'\ 
The  Rev.  E.  C.  Sweetzer,  in  the  course  of  a  sermon  on  the  text, 
"  Be  not  weary  in  well-doing,"  said,  in  substance,  yesterday :  The 
fruits  of  a  life  of  well-doing  are  an  approving  conscience,  an  enlai'ged 
capacity,  the  affection  of  friends,  the  esteem  of  acquaintances,  and 
finally  the  realization  that  every  good  deed  we  have  ever  done  has 
helped  to  redeem  the  human  race.  Sometimes  the  harvest  is  not 
seen  by  the  eyes  of  the  world,  and  it  is  only  known  to  Ilim  Avho 
gathers  it.  But  occasionally  a  man  is  given  lis  whose  opportunities 
are  more  extensive,  whose  life  is  public,  whose  sowing  is  done  before 
the  eyes  of  all  the  world  by  virtue  of  the  place  he  holds,  and  whose 
reaping  is  equally  a  thing  of  note;  and  when  such  a  man  sows  to 
the  Spirit,  day  after  day,  year  after  year,  without  growing  weary, 
and  of  the  Spirit  reaps  a  bounteous  harvest,  we  should  not  let  the 
significance  of  it  escape  our  notice.  Such  a  life  was  the  life  of  Hor- 
ace Greeley,  at  whose  funeral  rites  a  whole  nation  has  so  lately 
mourned.  There  are  many  lessons  to  be  drawn  from  a  career  like 
his  and  a  death  like  his,  but  among  them  all  there  is  none  that  seems 
more  prominent  than  that  which  our  text  so  Avell  expresses.  I  know 
of  no  man  in  modern  times  who  has  so  well  illustrated  the  truth  of 
an  inspired  statement  as  Mr.  Greeley  has  by  the  well-known  circum- 
stances of  his  active  life.  His  was  emphatically  a  life  of  well-doing. 
Not  that  he  was  ia  perfect  man ;  he  had  his  faults  like  other  people, 
but  the  general  spirit  of  his  life  was  a  spirit  of  goodness,  a  spirit  of 
philanthropy,  a  spirit  of  love  for  his  fellow-men.  He  was  always 
willing  to  spend  and  be  spent  for  the  good  of  others.  He  aimed  in 
everything  he  undertook  to  benefit  humanity.  Personal  ambition 
is  laudable  rather  than  blameworthy  when  it  is  subordinated  to  a 
desire  to  accomplish  good,  and  this  was  Mr.  Greeley's  main  desire, 
from  the  day  he  came  into  this  city,  a  friendless  boy,  to  the  day 
when  he  was  carried  out  of  it  through  lines  of  mourners.  He  was  a 
good  man  ;  he  wished  to  do  good  ;  he  tried  to  do  good.  He  began 
life  on  that  principle,  and  he  followed  it  out  to  the  very  end.  For 
that  he  wrote,  for  that  he  spoke,  for  that  he  labored  with  tongue 


PKESS   AXD   PULPIT   TRIBUTES.  223 

and  pen  and  pecuniary  means.  He  made  his  newspaper  an  organ 
of  good,  or,  at  all  events,  of  that  which  he  believed  to  be  right,  and 
he  was  commonly  right.  He  made  his  voice  a  messenger  of  good, 
bearing  tidings  of  freedom  to  the  slave,  of  woe  to  the  oppressor,  of 
knowledge  to  the  ignorant,  of  advice  to  the  erring,  and  of  pity  to 
the  penitent.  And  he  made  one  hand  a  frequent  almoner  of  good 
while  the  other  was  engaged  in  the  increasing  drudgery  of  his  daily 
"work,  which  he  performed  with  so  much  faithfulness. 

He  did  not  grow  weary  of  well-doing.  He  persisted  in  it  to  the 
last.  And  yet  I  suppose  that  Mi\  Greeley  had  as  much  to  make 
him  weary  of  doing  well  as  any  man  in  all  the  land.  He  had  a 
large  experience  of  ingratitude.  He  knew  the  baser  side  of  human 
nature  from  long  contact  with  it,  but  he  never  lost  his  faith  in  man 
or  God.  Tempted  on  either  side  by  wealth  and  power  to  forsake 
those  principles,  he  steadfastly  put  the  temptations  behind  him, 
and  maintained  his  kindness  of  ?ieart  and  beautiful  simplicity  of 
character.  He  persisted  in  well-doing,  and  he  has  reaped  his  re- 
ward. His  life  was  like  a  tropical  daj',  which  has  no  tAvilight,  sud- 
denly extinguished,  so  that  it  startles  and  shocks  us.  His  was  a 
glorious  death.  "I  know  that  my  Redeemer  liveth."  Ah,  it  is  a 
great  thing  to  have  said  that  at  such  a  time.  I  would  rather  die 
like  Horace  Greeley,  and  have  such  obsequies  as  his,  than  live  in 
the  greatest  earthly  state  for  a  hundred  years,  and  be  buried  like 
one  of  the  old  Egyptian  kings,  with  a  pyramid  above  my  head. 

THE    INJUSTICE    OF    POLITICS. 

[The  Bev.  John  TF.  Chadwiclc  at  Unity  Chcqjel,  Brooklyn.'} 
"Paint  me  as  I  am!"  said  Cromwell.  There  are  politicians 
who  would  decidedly  object  to.  being  so  painted.  There  are  others 
who  can  well  aiford  it.  Horace  Greeley  was  one  of  these,  and  if  he 
had  been  painted  as  he  was  he  would,  perhaps,  be  with  us  still. 
And  will  the  time  never  come  when  it  w^ll  be  seen  that  Ave  can 
better  afford  to  diminish  our  partisan  majorities,  or  even  to  lose  our 
partisan  victories,  than  to  blacken  the  characters  of  faithful  public 
servants  with  ribald  accusations  ?  I  do  not  mean  to  imply  that  in 
the  recent  contest  Mr,  Greeley  was  the  only  victim  of  this  method, 
though  I  can  but  feel  that  the  treatment  he  received  was  peculiarly 
outrageous  in  view  of  his  well-established  character  and  his  immense 
public  services.  His,  too,  was  a  nature  on  which  every  shaft  of 
malice  did  its  worst.     If  it  is  any  honor  to  be  able  to  receive  such 


224  MEMORIAL   OF   HORACE   GREELEY. 

shafts  ■with  perfect  equauimity,  it  is  an  honor  to  which  he  could  lay 
no  claim.  He  might  utter  no  cry,  but  the  iron  had  entered  into  his 
soul.  Passionately  loving,  and  as  passionately  loving  to  be  loved, 
he  could  not  breathe  the  stifling  air  of  alienation  and  suspicion. 
Say  that  it  was  weakness ;  it  was  weakness  that  did  him  infinite 
credit.  And  his  death  will  not  be  wholly  in  vain  if  thinking  of 
these  things  we  are  led  to  change  the  character  of  our  party  strug- 
gles, and  dignify  them  with  a  disposition  to  be  just,  even  though 
we  dare  not  be  generous.  It  will  be  long  before  we  have  another 
such  heart  to  wound. 

Comi)arcd  with  Mr.  Greeley's  death,  Mr.  Lincoln's  was  positively 
the  ideal  of  the  beautiful.  Here  was  the  man  who  had  been  for  the 
last  twenty  years  one  of  the  greatest  leaders  of  emancipation  and 
equality.  He  had  done  yeoman's  work  for  these  great  causes,  and 
for  others  hardly  less  dear  to  his  country  and  to  all  mankind.  At 
length,  he  had  become  a  candidate  for  the  Presidency  upon  a  plat- 
form which  was  certainly  not  less  Republican  than  the  one  adopted 
by  the  Republicans  at  Philadeljshia,  and  throughout  the  canvass 
Mr.  Greeley,  speaking  in  scores  of  places,  had  not  said  one  word 
inconsistent  with  that  platform,  or  with  the  previous  tenor  of  his 
great  career.  But  because  he  had  broken  from  the  party  traces 
that  came  to  his  support,  not  as  a  party,  but  as  individuals,  those 
against  whom  he  had  done  vigorous  battle  for  the  best  part  of  his 
life,  lie  became  anathema  to  thousands  who  had  followed  his  stand- 
ard upon  many  a  battle-field,  and  he  alienated  friends  more  dear 
to  him  than  life  itself.  The  source  of  this  great  tide  of  feeling 
which  has  broken  down  all  barriers  of  party  or  creed ;  which  has 
surged  across  the  continent,  and  sobbed  against  "  the  huts  where 
poor  men  lie,"  with  plaintive  murmurings — the  source  of  it  is  the 
conviction  that  whatever  else  was  here,  here  were  fidelity  and  loy- 
ality ;  here  were  devotion  and  ideas ;  here  was  hospitality  for  the 
new  as  well  as  reverence  for  the  old ;  here  was  a  man  all  quivering 
with  sensibility,  a  heart  alive  to  every  generous  emotion,  a  mind 
that  wore  no  shackles  and  believed  in  none,  a  will  entirely  conse- 
crated to  the  cause  of  truth  and  the  upbuilding  on  the  earth  of  a 
divine  humanity.  Whatever  the  matter  in  debate,  education,  or 
temperance,  or  the  administration  of  criminal  justice,  or  the  morals 
of  trade,  or  the  rights  of  thought,  or  labor,  or  science,  or  the  ele- 
ments of  personal  character,  the  average  tone  of  The  Tribune^  luider 
Mr.  Greeley's  guidance,  was  "  without  fear  and  without  reproach." 


PEESS   A^"D   PULPIT  TEIBUTES.  226 

THE    MASTER   JOUKXALIST. 

\_Tlie  Bev.  W.  T.  Clarke,  at  the  Unitarian  Church,  IIarlc7n.] 
There  is  sometbins:  sugwestive  in  the  fact  that  the  two  o^rcat 
journalists  of  America,  both  young  together,  both  rivals  for  public 
favor,  both  grandly  successful  in  different  ways,  both  leaving  vacant 
chairs  no  other  men  can  hope  to  fill,  have  almost  simultaneously 
passed  away.  James  Gordon  Bennett  and  Horace  Greeley  stand 
as  the  representatives  of  two  radically  different  types  of  journalism. 
Mr.  Bennett  made  the  model  newspaper.  He  lifted  reporting  into 
an  art.  He  developed  the  collection  and  classification  of  intelli- 
gence from  all  parts  of  the  world  into  a  science  and  a  business.  He 
made  the  newspaper  an  institution,  Mr.  Greeley,  on  the  other 
hand,  made  the  American  journal.  The  Tribune  contains  news, 
fresh,  diversified,  invaluable,  from  all  quarters  of  the  globe ;  but  it 
has  always  been  the  vehicle  of  opinion,  the  organ  through  which  a 
man  of  intense  personal  convictions  has  found  utterance.  It  was 
not  the  nerve  but  the  mind,  the  man  whose  warm  sympathies,  and 
powerful  arguments,  and  gigantic  determination  were  felt  in  every 
column  and  glowed  in  every  paragraph  of  that  newspaper,  -which 
made  it  a  power.  He  raised  personal  journalism  to  its  supreme 
bight,  and  indicated  the  place  of  the  press  in  the  future  of  the 
world.  Mr.  Greeley  was  one  of  the  best  writers  connected  with 
the  American  press.  His  style  was  remarkably  simple,  clear, 
forcible,  and  direct ;  it  seemed  to  be  the  absence  of  style,  the  art 
beyond  art.  Nobody  ever  thought  of  his  rhetoric,  so  clear  and  nat- 
ural was  his  expression.  It  was  the  reason,  the  sentiment,  the 
transcendent  purpose,  the  moral  magnetism  of  an  exceptionally 
endowed  and  devoted  mind,  which  made  the  writing  so  luminous 
and  effective. 

He  so  infused  his  spirit,  his  sentiment,  his  purpose  into  his  asso- 
ciates that  they  unconsciously  made  his  idea  their  own,  and  wrote 
better  than  they  knew  under  the  stimulus  of  his  inspiration.  It  was 
this  that  gave  The  Ti'ihune  such  a  unity  for  thirty  years  that  thou- 
sands thought  of  it  as  the  production  of  one  mind,  and  half  imagined 
that  its  editor  wrote  everything  that  appeared  in  its  columns.  To 
make  a  great  journal,  and  hold  it  up  to  the  high  line  of  a  moral  idea 
for  more  than  a  generation,  to  make  it  tell  on  the  side  of  progress, 
reform,  charity,  and  humanity,  to  fill  it  every  morning  with  the  in- 
spiration of  a  great  love  for  human  kind,  blossoming  in  the  advo- 
cacy of  everything  that  can  make  life  sweeter  and  the  world  better, 

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226  MEMORIAL   OF  HORACE   GREELEY. 

and  the  race  nobler  and  happier,  is  one  of  the  grandest  achievements 
of  our  time.     That  is  what  Horace  Greeley  did. 

LESSONS  FROM  HIS  LIFE. 
[T7ie  Rev.  Charles  II.  Brigham,  Ann  Arbor,  Mich.'] 
A  wonderful  pageant  they  have  just  seen  in  our  great  city,  a 
throng  greater  even  than  curiosity  brought  to  see  the  son  of  a  Queen 
or  the  son  of  an  Emperor,  greater  than  the  throng  that  waited  so 
solemnly  for  the  body  of  the  martyred  President  to  pass,  looking  on 
now  as  the  body  of  this  plain  citizen  was  borne  to  burial ;  for  miles 
long,  filling  the  walks  and  the  balconies  and  the  windows,  along  the 
ways  of  pleasure  and  the  ways  of  traific,  and  the  winding  ways  of 
the  abode  of  the  dead ;  silent  and  sad,  yet  of  one  heart  and  soul,  all 
differences  forgotten,  all  discords  hushed.  Surely  death,  which 
works  strange  changes,  never  wrought  a  more  wonderful  change 
than  tliis.  A  month  ago,  caricature,  lampoon,  railing ;  now  those 
that  wore  foremost  in  harsh  speech,  vieing  with  admirers  in  tributes 
to  the  memory  of  the  good  man !  Who  would  believe  that  these 
eulogies  which  we  read,  so  warm,  so  large,  so  free  from  exception 
or  reserve,  are  mostly  from  men  who,  within  these  last  mouths,  were 
exhausting  satire  upon  the  object  of  their  present  praise?  Perhaps 
this  is  the  honorable  amendment  which  shame  and  remorse  make 
for  injustice  done. 

In  this  discourse  I  shall  essay  to  speak  of  some  of  the  character- 
istic lessons  in  the  life  of  Horace  Greeley;  very  obvious  lessons, 
which  have  occurred  to  many  of  you  already,  and  which  you  have 
doubtless  read  in  the  tributes  which  all  the  journals  have  hastened 
to  give.  The  lessons  of  such  a  life  lie  on  the  surface  and  can  not  be 
mistaken,  for  here  was  a  man  better  known  probably  than  any  other 
man  in  the  land.  I  have  no  advantage  of  you  in  having  known  him 
personally,  in  having  talked  with  him,  in  having  been  witli  liini  in 
the  house  and  at  the  table,  in  having  met  him  in  the  church.  That 
acquaintance  was  of  small  importance  compared  with  the  impression 
of  his  personality  in  the  books  he  wrote,  in  the  speeches  he  made, 
,  and,  above  all,  in  the  newspaper  he  founded,  and  in  which,  for  more 
tlian  thirty  years,  he  poured  out  his  soul.  Those  who  have  read 
that  ne\vs))aper  habitually  know  the  man  well  enough  to  need  no 
other  knowledge,  and  will  not  learn  anything  new  about  him  from 
tlie  anecdotes  and  memories  of  his  personal  associates.  What  I  say 
xibout  him  here  comes  mainly  from  the  long  knowledge  of  the  man 


PEESS   AND   PULPIT   TRIBUTES.  227 

through  his  daily  iittei-auces,  and  not  from  the  recollections  of  occa- 
sional meetings.  I  was  a  man  just  of  age  when  I  read  the  first  num- 
ber of  The  Nexo  York  Tribune ;  and  from  that  day  to  this,  I  have 
never  read  any  newspaper  so  constantly,  so  carefully,  and,  on  the 
whole,  with  so  much  sympathy.  For  many  of  the  opinions  of  the 
editor  I  have  had  no  liking;  from  some  of  his  schemes  I  have 
strongly  dissented ;  and  in  the  last  momentous  experience  of  his  life 
I  was  found  on  the  other  side,  because,  with  all  his  gifts  and  virtues, 
I  did  not  think  him  the  best  man  for  the  place  of  President  of  the 
nation.  But  I  have  never  doubted  that  his  heart  was  right,  that 
his  purpose  was  honest,  that  his  character  was  pure,  that  he  was  a 
brave,  sincere,  guileless,  and  very  noble  man,  one  of  the  best  men, 
■  all  things  considered,  that  has  ever  been  widely  known  in  this  land ; 
one  of  the  men  w^hose  good  work  will  live  after  him,  and  whom  his 
acts  sufficiently  praise,  without  any  extravagant  epithets. 

He  was  in  no  sense  a  deceiver.  He  wore  no  mask.  He  hid  no 
opinion.  His  yea  was  yea,  and  his  nay  was  nay.  Politician  as  he 
was,  ardent  for  his  party,  he  was  not  a  cheating  politician,  not  a 
hypocrite.  He  spoke  out,  and  in  good,  intelligible  English,  his  opin- 
ion on  every  subject  where  he  had  an  opinion.  The  trumpet  of  his 
journal  might  change  its  tone,  but  it  never  gave  an  uncertain 
sound.  Every  one  knew  that  this  editor  was  honest,  not  merely  as  he 
paid  his  debts,  and  defrauded  no  man  of  money,  but  as  he  was  true 
to  his  convictions.  His  honesty  was  honesty  of  speech,  of  demeanor, 
as  well  as  of  pecuniary  transaction.  He  made  no  promises  of  any 
kind  which  he  did  not  mean  to  keep,  or  which  he  tried  to  evade,  or 
was  willing  to  forget.  Men  cheated  him  very  often ;  no  public  man 
was  oftener  the  victim  of  knaves  and  swindlers,  some  of  them  wear- 
ing broadcloth,  and  pitying  the  dupe  whom  they  had  played  with. 
But  he  never  returned  that  game.  They  called  him,  indeed,  fickle, 
untrustworthy,  as  he  did  eccentric  acts,  sought  for  peace  when  the 
war  should  be  more  vigorously  pressed,  and  bailed  the  chief  of  trait- 
ors, while  insisting  that  treason  must  be  punished.  But  that  seem- 
ing fickleness  was  not  untruthfulness.  I  remember  no  word  in  all 
his  writings,  on  any  theme,  even  in  heated  times  of  passion  and  party 
intrigue,  which  seemed  to  me  of  the  nature  of  a  lie,  of  any  willful 
and  conscious  attempt  to  deceive.  His  transparent  frankness,  so 
unusual  in  his  profession,  so  habitual,  so  unchanging,  so  obstinate 
against  all  the  exigencies  and  expediencies  of  party  discipline,  fastens 
the  title  of  honest  to  his  name.     His  worst  foes  have  never  disputed 


228  MEMORIAL   OF    HORACE   GREELEY. 

this.  He  might  be  a  manager,  but  never  at  the  sacrifice  of  his  moral 
integrity.  You  can  not  think  of  him  as  a  Jesuit,  or  a  borrower  of 
Jesuit  arts;  and  yet  no  Jesuit  was  ever  more  devoted  to  cherished 
ideas,  or  to  the  system  that  represented  those  ideas. 

lie  would  not  have  made  a  good  prize-fighter,  would  not  have 
stormed  a  fortress  at  the  head  of  a  forlorn  hope.  But  he  had  the 
coui-age  which  faces  difliculties,  braves  rebuke  and  contumely,  is  not 
afraid  of  hard  names  and  harsh  epithets ;  the  courage  that  can  look 
danger  and  persecution  in  the  face  and  not  shrink  before  it,  brave 
before  ridicule  not  less  than  before  threatening;  the  rare  courage 
which  in  the  discharge  of  duty  is  not  afraid  of  what  men  shall  say. 
His  valor  was  in  no  sense  Quixotic,  valor  against  windmills  or  foes 
of  the  air,  against  imaginary  perils;  nor  was  it  the  valor  of  the  self- 
satisfied  hero,  who  boasts  that  he  was  born  insensible  to  fear.  It 
was  a  calm  and  modest  courage,  making  no  stir,  but  never  swerving 
from  its  chosen  way.  This  brave  man  was  not  defiant,  reckless,  in- 
different to  what  the  world  thought  of  him.  He  loved  popularity. 
He  craved  the  good-will  of  friends  and  associates  and  the  society 
around  him.  Xo  man  more  prized  kind  Avords  from  every  class  of 
men.  Yet  no  consideration  of  jDublic  favor  could  frighten  him  from 
speaking  his  mind,  from  saying  what  he  believed  to  be  true,  from 
saying  what  he  believed  that  the  people  ought  to  hear.  He  was 
brave  to  encounter  misrepresentation,  abuse,  calumny,  in  defense  of 
any  cause  that  he  espoused.  Pie  was  not  afraid  to  have  opprobrious 
names  fastened  to  him,  if  his  defense  of  unpopular  causes  brought 
him  such  epithets.  They  called  him  Socialist,  Agrarian,  Free-lover, 
and  how  many  more  such  names,  but  he  did  not  trouble  himself  to 
reject  these  names,  if,  by  doing  so,  he  should  seem  to  take  back  his 
words,  or  be  afraid  to  bear  responsibility  for  what  he  had  said. 
Such  courage  is  of  higher  order  than  an  animal  instinct,  more  difli- 
cult  to  keep,  more  trying  to  a  sensitive  soul.  The  bravery  that 
bears  misunderstanding  is  more  radical  than  the  bravery  which 
returns  blows  or  merely  fights  battles.  And  there  is  a  kind  of  cour- 
aare  which  shows  itself  all  the  more  real  in  seeming  cowardice. 
There  are  brave  men  who  seem  for  the  time  to  be  cowards,  and  are 
brave  in  being  willing  to  bear  such  a  stigma. 

He  was  an  amiable  man,  a  man  who  bore  no  malice  and  cher- 
ished no  vindictiveness.  He  had  his  likes  and  dislikes,  strongly  felt, 
and  often  strongly  expressed.  He  could  use  sharp  words,  sometimes 
sarcastic  and  stinging  words.    But  under  this  guise  of  severity  there 


PRESS   AXD   PULPIT  TRIBUTES.  229 

was  always  the  heart  of  love  and  mercy.  I  do  not  believe  that  he 
would  willingly  have  harmed  any  human  being.  If  his  answers 
were  sometimes  hasty,  and  his  manner  might  seem  rude  to  those 
who  broke  upon  his  labor  and  were  careless  of  his  convenience  in 
their  importunate  demands,  he  never  gave  these  thieves  of  his  time 
what  they  really  deserved,  and  generally  gave  them  all  that  they 
asked  for.  There  was  gentleness  in  his  blood,  in  his  eye,  in  his  man- 
ner, though  he  came  of  humble  parentage  and  was  so  long  in  a  place 
of  authority.  Probably  no  man  in  such  a  position  was  ever  less 
arbitrary,  overbearing,  or  peremptory  in  dealing  with  his  subordin- 
ates. They  loved  him  more  as  they  knew  him  better,  they  loved 
liim  more  as  they  learned  his  foibles,  and  saw  that  so  many  of  these 
came  from  his  tenderness  of  spirit.  This  man,  so  abstracted  in  his 
manner,  so  busy  in  his  own  affairs,  so  engrossed  in  ideas,  had  always 
time  for  love  and  its  works,  for  love  which  was  larger  than  the  love 
of  home  and  kindred,  true  and  deep  as  that  love  Avas.  They  called 
him  a  "  Philanthropist,"  and  the  name,  awkward  enough,  and  spoiled 
in  its  application  to  schemers  and  dreamers,  was  proper  in  his  case. 
He  was  a  philanthropist  more  than  a  reformer ;  he  loved  men  more 
than  he  judged  or  chastised  them,  loved  before  he  would  heal  them. 
His  religious  feeling  grew  out  of  his  good-will  to  men.  He  could 
not  believe  that  God  would  destroy  those  whom  his  own  heart  could 
not  give  to  perdition.  All  his  theories,  all  his  plans,  all  his  enter- 
prises, turned  in  this  direction  of  mercy  and  benevolence.  No  cru- 
elty, no  cruel  methods,  and  no  inhuman  ends,  could  ever  win  his 
sympathy.  He  would  not  hang  men,  or  imprison  men  apart,  or  send 
them  into  exile.  He  would  not  have  negroes  enslaved,  or  Indians 
exterminated,  or  any  class  put  under  ban.  His  beaming  face,  that 
full  moon  of  soft  compassion,  vras  the  sign  of  his  soul.  Innumerable 
anecdotes  illustrate  this  kindness  of  soul,  even  while  they  show 
weakness  of  will.  His  failings  were  all  in  this  direction.  He  could 
say  a  very  strong  "  no,"  when  they  urged  him  to  a  fraud  or  a  false- 
hood, but  he  could  not  say  "no"  to  an  appeal  to  his  generosity  or 
his  pity,  could  not  say  "  no "  Avhen  a  friend  in  distress  was  to  be 
helped  or  the  poor  were  to  be  blessed. 

If  there  was  any  special  class  of  whom  this  plain  man  was  the 
champion,  for  whom  he  used  all  his  skill,  and  his  zeal,  and  influence, 
it  was  the  class  of  the  poor  and  the  oppressed  and  the  forsaken,  of 
those  who  were  abused  and  outraged  by  their  fellow-men.  He  may 
not  have  gone  all  lengths,  at  all  times,  with  the  abolitionist  leaders, 


230  MEMORIAL   OF   IIOEACE   GEEELEY. 

in  their  conventions  and  resolutions.  He  never  did  say,  and  he 
never  would  say,  that  the  Constitution  of  the  United  States  was  a 
covenant  with  death  and  an  agreement  with  hell.  But  the  sober 
verdict  of  history  will  be  that  no  single  man  did  so  much  for  the 
overthrow  of  human  bondage  in  this  land  as  the  editor  of  The  Nexo 
York  Tribune.  If  he  did  not  lay  his  ax  so  unsparingly  to  the  root 
of  the  tree  as  some  other  of  the  refoiTners,  he  destroyed  it  quite  as 
eiiectually  by  steadily  hacking  away  its  limbs  and  tendrils,  and 
ruining  so  its  inner  life.  That  lie  wished  and  longed  for  its  destruc- 
tion, Avho  ever  dared  to  doubt  ?  That  he  was  the  enemy  of  every 
form  of  social  wrong  and  iniquity,  who  ever  doubted  ?  You  can 
n(5t  imagine  this  man  palliating  or  tolerating  any  custom  or  traffic 
which  degrades  or  imbrutes  or  depraves  men.  Not  to  one,  but  to 
many,  moral  I'eforms  his  time  and  heart  were  given.  To  education, 
thorough  and  universal ;  to  sobriety,  in  eating  not  less  than  in  drink- 
ing ;  to  cleanliness,  with  him  very  near  to  godliness ;  to  humanity, 
for  beasts  not  less  than  for  men ;  to  free  homes  for  emigrants ;  to 
cordial  welcome  of  exiles  from  other  lands,  seeking  refuge  on  these 
shores;  to  the  liberation  of  all  oppressed  and  struggling  peoples 
when  was  his  word  of  cheer  and  sympathy  wanting  ?  With  the 
weak  against  the  strong,  with  the  abandoned  ones,  his  heart  went, 
and  he  would  give  to  these  more  than  justice.  This  made  him  the 
friend  of  Hungarians  and  Poles  and  Irishmen,  and  the  defender  even 
of  the  Pagans  against  Christians.  When  the  weak  and  the  needy 
called,  he  did  not  stop  to  ask  whether  these  shared  his  political  or 
his  religious  creed,  or  what  his  race  or  his  party  would  gain  in  be- 
friending them.  He  obeyed  the  Divine  call,  and  not  seldom  was 
made  half  a  martyr  in  obedience  to  his  instinct  of  compassion.  His 
fame  for  wisdom  suftered  in  the  promptness  of  his  sympathetic  zeaL 

A    GREAT    CITIZEX. 

[27te  Rev.  Dr.  Adler  at  the  Temple  Emanuel.] 
The  Rev.  Dr.  Adler,  in  a  discourse  on  Saturday  in  the  Temple 
Emanuel,  at  Forty-third  Street  and  Fifth  Avenue,  on  the  "  Immor- 
tality of  the  Soul,"  after  speaking  of  the  views  of  the  ancients,  and 
the  liglit  wliich  Scripture  had  shed  upon  the  subject,  passed  to  the 
death  of  Horace  Greeley,  saying,  in  i)art :  These,  the  great  lights,  the 
faith  of  man  and  the  hopes  of  humanity — the  immortality  of  the  hu- 
man soul,  and  the  progress  of  human  development — shine  and  spring 
afresh  in  us  on  the  very  impressive  occasion  when  we  see  a  man  who 


PEESS  AND   PULPIT   TRIBUTES.  231 

has  shown  himself  through  the  workings  of  his  mind  so  great  and 
beneficial  disappear  from  the  ranks  of  the  living.  The  heart  of  man 
can  not  bear  the  thought  that  such  a  mighty  spirit,  which  was  over- 
flowing with  ideas  and  had  developed  a  whole  world  of  thought  in 
itself,  should  at  once  have  sunk  into  total  night.  The  universal  soul 
in  itself,  and  the  high  honors  that  were  paid  the  departed,  ai'e  proof 
of  the  certainty  innate  in  the  heart  of  man  that  the  soul  lives  on  and 
has  not  become  extinct ;  for  that  which  exists  not  can  never  become 
an  object  of  love  and  honor.  The  idea  of  humanity,  likewise,  gains 
new  strength  through  the  death  of  great  men.  Life  divides ;  Death 
unites ;  and  the  greater  the  dead  the  greater  the  unity.  This  we 
have  seen  in  the  fullest  measure  during  the  last  few  days,  when  the 
nation,  the  whole  nation,  all  classes  and  all  factions  thereof,  followed 
the  funeral  of  the  man,  Horace  Greeley,  with  unexampled  sorrow 
and  devotion.  The  tribute  was  not  given  because  the  deceased  was 
a  high  dignitary  or  a  man  occupying  any  public  position ;  it  came 
as  a  necessity  of  the  heart,  a  free  tribute  of  gratitude  to  one  of  giant 
intellect,  an  apostle  of  the  purest  virtues,  a  herald  and  champion  of 
jDrogress  everywhere.  With  heart  and  head  he  soared  above  the 
millions.  He  had  his  peculiarities  and  weaknesses.  The  sun  has  its 
specks,  and  like  every  truly  great  man  he  had  enemies  while  he  was 
alive  ;  but  when  the  sudden  message  of  sorrow  came,  "Horace  Gree- 
ley is  dead,"  it  shook  all  hearts  as  with  an  electric  shock.  In  an  in- 
stant it  swept  his  few  faults  from  memory,  and  changed  his  adver- 
saries into  mourners  and  admirers.  The  country  has  lost  one  of  its 
greatest  citizens,  and  humanity  a  man  who  has  lived  and  worked 
for  it.  A  mighty  bulwark  in  the  fight  for  every  good  cause, 
Horace  Greeley  fell,  as  once  Fort  Sumter  fell.  His  fall  awoke  en- 
thusiasm. It  was  the  signal  for  the  union  of  factions  to  "  clasp 
hands  over  the  bloody  chasm."  He  has  not  lived  to  see  it ;  with 
his  death  it  has  become  a  reality. 

A   LIFE    BETTER   THAN   PEECEPTS. 

[TTie  Bev.  R.  S.  Mac  Arthur,  at  the  Calvary  Baptist  Church.] 
The  Rev.  R.  S.  MacArthur,  in  the  course  of  his  sermon,  yester- 
day, said,  in  part,  that  one  such  life  of  rectitude,  honesty  of  purpose, 
devotion  to  principle,  and  fearless  advocacy  of  principle  as  Mr.  Gree- 
ley's, was  worth  more  to  humanity  than  all  the  precepts  that  have 
ever  been  written  for  human  guidance.  The  world  is  able  to  point 
to  a  living  example  of  the  heroism  it  extols  and  the  self-saci-ifice  it 


232  MEMORIAL    OF    nORACE  GREELEY. 

honors.  If  the  question  is  asked,  "  "Who  has  met  the  requirements 
of  wisdom?"  the  teachers  of  truth  are  able  to  point  to  him  who,  dur- 
ing the  past  week,  has  been  lionored  by  a  nation.  lie  occupied  no 
great  position  of  honor  or  trust,  but  filled  a  prominent  place  in  the 
hearts  of  tlie  people.  Praise  God  for  his  life,  and  praise  Ilim  for  his 
death  !  Well  will  it  be  for  all  of  us  if  in  our  last  hours  we  shall  be 
able,  with  the  fullness  of  meaning  with  which  he  uttered  the  words, 
to  give  earnest  expression  to  those  last  sentences  of  his  life,  the  one 
expressing  the  assurance  of  his  confidence  in  the  fullness  of  the  re- 
demption provided,  and  the  other  his  satisfaction  at  the  close  of  a 
busy  life. 

HOEACE  GREELEY  AND  JOURNALISM. 

[From  The  Tribune,  Dec.  3.] 

The  generous  and  sorrowful  words  which  the  newspapers  of  all 
parties  have  spoken  of  our  lamented  chief,  show  that  the  ambition 
which  Mr.  Greeley  pursued  in  the  management  of  TJie  Tribune^ 
while  it  brought  him  frequently  into  collision  with  public  men,  and 
led  to  many  acrimonious  disputes,  nevertheless  commanded  universal 
respect.  Beside  his  grave  the  bitterness  of  partisan  Avarfare,  the 
petty  quarreling  of  rivals,  the  animosities  of  political  debate,  are 
wholly  forgotten.  From  those  who  yesterday  were  adversaries,  as 
well  as  from  those  who  for  years  have  been  admirers  and  friends, 
come  sincere  and  eloquent  tributes,  not  only  to  the  personal  character 
of  the  dead,  but  to  that  lofty  purpose  Avhich  Horace  Greeley  made 
the  guiding  principle  of  his  life.  The  school  of  journalism,  of  which 
lie  was  the  foremost  teacher,  has  few  attractions  for  those  who  seek 
money,  or  fame,  or  political  reward.  If  it  brought  all  three  to  Hor- 
ace Greeley,  it  was  not  because  he  strove  for  them,  but  because  for- 
tune sometimes  favors  those  who  never  court  her  smiles.  He  was  a 
journalist  because  he  had  something  to  say  which  he  believed  men 
would  be  the  better  for  knowing;  not  because  he  wanted  something 
for  himself  which  journalism  might  secure  for  him.  The  call  which 
brought  him  into  the  profession  issued  "  from  a  world  to  be  enlight- 
ened and  blessed,  not  from  a  void  stomach  clamoring  to  be  gratified 
and  filled."  To  publish  a  newspaper  merely  for  the  sake  of  making 
money,  would  have  seemed  to  him  the  degradation  of  a  noble 
career, 

Mr.  Greeley  has  been  described  as  essentially  a  propogandist. 
He  was  that,  but  he  was  something  more.     His  labors  were  not  con- 


PRESS  ATfD   PULPIT  TRIBUTES.  233 

fined  to  the  promulgation  of  his  own  theories  of  morality  and  state- 
craft. He  made  it,  indeed,  his  part  to  assail  giant  abuses,  and  to 
battle  for  purer  and  juster  government ;  but  these  objects  were  only- 
incidents  of  a  comprehensive  scheme  of  benevolence,  which  took  in 
the  general  culture,  pi'osperity,  and  happiness  of  the  whole  human 
race.  The  model  newspaper,  in  his  view,  was  not  merely  the  organ 
of  jDet  theories,  but  an  instrument  of  practical  good — teaching  the 
ignorant,  leading  the  blind,  succoring  the  poor,  fighting  for  the  op- 
pressed, developing  national  wealth,  stimulating  industry,  and  incul- 
cating virtue.  To  make  The  Tribune  this,  he  put  away  from  him 
all  thirst  for  renown,  all  appetite  for  wealth,  all  desire  for  personal 
advantage.  He  never  counted  the  cost  of  his  words.  He  never  in- 
quired Avhat  course  would  pay,  or  what  would  please  his  subscribers. 
He  held  in  magnificent  disdain  the  meaner  sort  of  editor,  "  who 
sidles  dextrously  between  somewhere  and  nowhere,"  accumulates 
riches  by  the  daily  utterance  of  silken  sayings,  and  goes  to  his  rest 
at  last  "  with  the  non-achievements  of  his  life  blazoned  on  the 
whitest  marble."  The  journalist  who  strives  to  print  only  what  will 
sell,  seemed  to  him  as  bad  as  the  parson  who  preaches  only  to  fill 
his  pews.  Mr.  Greeley  never  hesitated  to  go  counter  to  a  base  and 
selfish  public  sentiment.  Those  who  have  watched  his  career  will 
recall  scores  of  instances  in  which  he  has  deliberately  ofiended  polit- 
ical friends  and  sacrificed  pecuniary  interests  to  espouse  an  unpopu- 
lar cause.  In  defending  what  he  believed  to  be  right  his  courage 
•was  magnificent.  He  was  deaf  to  popular  clamor,  insensible  to  the 
jangling  of  the  dollars.  The  stern  and  thorny  path  by  which  an 
editor  must  climb  to  greatness  demanded,  according  to  him,  "  an  ear 
ever  open  to  the  plaints  of  the  wronged  and  suffering,  though  they 
can  never  repay  advocacy,  and  those  who  mainly  su^jport  newspapers 
Avill  be  annoyed  and  often  exposed  by  it." 

The  pure  unselfishness  of  his  purposes,  and  the  strength  of  his 
convictions,  enriched  his  labor  with  a  strength,  vitality,  and  persist- 
ence which  mere  mercenary  enterprises  never  display.  The  noble 
ambition  which  consecrated  his  daily  toil  impelled  him  to  put  his 
whole  heart  into  it ;  and  such  work  is  always  well  done.  But  apart 
from  inspiration  of  this  sort,  Mr.  Greeley  had  remarkable  qualifica- 
tions for  the  profession  which  he  adopted.  A  quick  perception  of 
the  significance  of  events,  a  keen  scent  for  intelligence,  an  accurate 
judgment  of  the  mutual  relations  of  occurrences,  a  ready  apprecia- 
tion of  the  drift  of  popular  currents,  and  a  sympathetic  comprehen- 


234  ME3I0EIAL   OF  HOEACE   GEEELEY. 

sion  of  tlie  public  temper  of  the  hour,  were  among  the  gifts  and 
acquirements  which  he  brouglit  to  his  task.  His  fund  of  information 
■was  vast  and  varied.  His  memory  was  a  marvel.  His  ingenuity 
in  argument  and  illustration  was  inexhaustible.  A  clear,  direct, 
forcible  style,  of  almost  painful  conciseness,  but  illuminated  at  times 
by  flashes  of  wit,  by  touches  of  tenderness,  and  by  the  happiest  of 
homely  metaphors,  set  forth  his  clear  and  earnest  thought ;  while  a 
singularly  magnetic  temperament  infused  a  great  deal  of  his  own 
fervor  into  the  men  who  Avorked  with  him.  Thus  equipped,  Horace 
Greeley  could  hardly  fail  to  make  a  great  newspaj)er ;  but  he  did 
not  make  it  to  sell.  The  Tribune  never  was  a  commercial  specula- 
tion ;  and  if  it  prospered  under  his  management,  and  grew  to  be  a 
far  grander  and  richer  thing  than  in  his  early  days  he  had  dreamed 
of  making  it,  this  was  not  because  he  ever  sacrificed  the  utterance 
of  a  single  conviction  for  the  sake  of  pecuniary  j^rofit,  but  because 
truth  will  force  its  way,  and  honesty,  in  the  long  run,  will  compel 
the  respect  of  mankind. 

The  success  of  Horace  Greeley  is  the  best  encouragement  for 
the  journalism  of  the  future.  It  teaches  our  profession  that  a  nobler 
career  is  open  to  us  than  that  of  the  thoughtless  gatherer  of  news 
and  gossip,  or  the  huckster  of  literature  who  deals  in  anything  that 
people  want  to  buy,  and  the  blackguard  whose  abusive  tongue  wags 
at  the  command  of  whoever  will  pay  for  its  service.  "  He  who,  by 
voice  or  pen,"  said  Mr.  Greeley,  "  strikes  his  best  blow  at  the  impos- 
tures and  vices  whereby  our  race  is  debased  and  paralyzed,  may 
close  his  eyes  in  death,  consoled  and  cheered  by  the  reflection  that 
he  has  done  what  he  could  for  the  emancipation  and  elevation  of  his 
kind."  But  this  shall  not  be  his  only  recompense.  The  stoiy  of 
Horace  Greeley  teaches  us  that  it  is  the  journalist  of  strong  convic- 
tions, unselfish  purposes,  and  unflinching  courage  who  wins  at  the 
last  tlife  honors  and  prizes  of  his  calling,  the  respect  of  his  fellow- 
laborers,  and  the  affection  of  his  countrymen. 

MB.    GREELEY    AS    A    MAX    OF    LETrERS. 

{From  The  Tribune,  Dec.  4.] 
It  is  not  strange  that,  in  making  up  an  estimate  of  Mr.  Greeley's 
character,  men  should  si)eak  of  him  chiefly  as  a  journalist,  a  politi- 
cian, and  a  statesman  ;  for  his  lile  was  mainly  passed  in  practical 
)>ursuits,  and  was  full  of  the  comparatively  coarse  controversies  of 
party.     There  was  a  side  of  his  nature  and  a  peculiarity  of  his  cul- 


PRESS   AND  PULPIT  TRIBUTES.  235 

ture  which  were  naturally  not  so  open  to  the  public  eye,  and  only 
the  few  knew  how  strong  was  his  love  of  the  best  books,  and  how 
delicate,  and  even  fastidious,  were  his  literary  tastes.  American 
literature,  when  he  was  a  young  man,  was  just  beginning  to  have  a 
somewhat  distinct  character,  and  to  exhibit  something  of  original 
vigor.  We  have  before  us  a  file  of  the  New-Yorher^  which  was 
started  in  1834.  It  was,  we  need  hardly  say,  a  miscellany  of  original 
and  selected  prose  and  verse ;  and  we  must  admit  that  what  strikes 
us  most  forcibly  upon  inspecting  a  volume  of  this  journal  is  the 
exquisite  purity  of  taste  which  presided  over  its  columns,  and  which 
is  not  often  found  in  any  young  man,  whatever  may  have  been  his 
opportunities.  The  original  verse,  for  instance,  a  good  deal  of 
which  was  written  by  Mr.  Greeley  himself,  may  not  be  of  a  high 
and  important  order,  but  it  always  exhibits  a  certain  degree  of  ele- 
gance and  finish,  and  a  careful  study  of  the  poetical  models  then 
most  in  vogue.  Mr.  Greeley's  vei-se  shows  what  the  world  hardly 
gave  him  credit  for  possessing,  though  his  friends  knew  well  enough 
it  was  his — a  tender  sensibility,  if  we  may  use  that  word  so  often 
misused ;  a  deep  and  unaflected  love  of  the  beautiful,  and  an  abid- 
ing reverence  for  the  most  excellent  of  our  human  affections.  Like 
many  other  men  who  find  the  business  of  actual  life  too  engrossing 
to  permit  a  continuance  of  their  young  love  of  the  ideal,  Mr.  Greeley 
may  have,  for  the  most  part,  ceased  to  write,  but  he  never  ceased 
to  be  a  reader  of  poetry.  In  this  his  taste  was  almost  infallible. 
While  actually  engaged  in  the  management  of  a  newspaper,  every 
day  he  w^as  importuned  by  meter-mongers  to  give  publicity  to  their 
mediocrities  ;  and  the  public  knows  how  ill  they  succeeded  in  their 
designs  upon  the  columns.  The  New-  YorTcer  shows  the  fastidious 
accuracy  of  Mr.  Greeley's  literary  judgment.  Almost  all  the  selec- 
tions are  from  first-rate  sources,  and  are  worthy  of  their  respectable 
origin.  This  critical  skill  Mr.  Greeley  never  lost.  If  he  found  a 
young  man  writing  well  in  The  Tribune,  he  usually  took  occasion 
to  let  that  writer  know  his  good  opinion  of  him;  if  he  found  a  man, 
young  or  old,  writing  badly,  he  had  a  very  decisive  way  of  hinting 
either  at  reformation  or  resignation.  He  knew  good  work  when  he 
saw  it ;  he  was  what  some  editors  are  not,  a  careful  reader  of  his 
own  newspaper;  and  if  he  discovered  in  it  clumsiness,  negligence, 
bad  taste,  or  inaccuracy,  the  offender  might  depend  upon  being 
brought  to  account.  So,  his  staff  of  writers  knew  what  to  exjiect  in 
those  days  when  he  was  almost  always  at  the  office ;  and  this  knowl- 


236  MEMOKIAL   OF   HORACE   GREELEY. 

edge  restrained  tlie  ambitious,  chastened  the  imaginative,  incited 
the  indolent,  and  warned  tlie  careless.  Men  ^Aho  were  quite  his 
equals,  and,  perhaps,  his  superiors,  in  mere  scholarship,  recognized 
the  accuracy  of  his  judgment,  and  were  sure  that  if  they  pleased 
him  they  would  not  displease  that  great  Tribune  constituency 
which  he  understood  so  well. 

As  a  writer  of  pure,  simple,  and  direct  English,  Mr.  Greeley  is 
entitled  to  a  high  rank.  His  knowledge  of  the  laws  of  the  language 
was  excellent,  and  in  all  the  haste  and  heat  of  newspaper  composi- 
tion he  rai-ely  violated  them.  Generally,  his  leading  articles  were 
models  of  their  kind.  They  were  arranged,  as  our  readers  know, 
with  a  sort  of  mathematical  pi'ecision,  and  both  in  their  facts  and 
their  argumentation  they  were  apt  to  be  troublesome  to  his  antago- 
nists. If  the  subject  were  one  which  excited  the  writer  so  that  he 
became  thoroughly  earnest,  his  fine  powers  of  sarcasm,  of  irony,  and 
sometimes  of  wholesome  vituperation,  were  exhibited  at  their  best. 
There  is  an  account  of  his  trial  for  a  libel  upon  Mr.  Fenimore  Coo- 
per, originally  printed  in  The  Tribune,  and  reprinted  in  Mr.  Par- 
ton's  "Life,"  which,  in  its  wit,  humor,  and  incisive  irony  has  hardly 
been  surpassed  by  any  English  Avriter.  In  some  respects  Mr.  Gree- 
ley reminds  us  of  Cobbett,  but  with  all  the  vigor  and  directness  of 
that  celebrated  journalist,  he  had  none  of  the  coarseness  which  con- 
tinually disfigures  the  pages  of  "  Peter  Porcupine."  Of  the  work 
of  his  profession  he  never  had  enough.  When  he  was  at  the  hight 
of  his  health  and  strength,  there  seemed  no  limit  to  his  powers  of  ap- 
plication and  endurance.  For  one  who  wrote  so  rapidly,  he  was 
singularly  accurate,  and  even  as  a  work  of  reference  his  "  History 
of  the  Rebellion  "  has  great  value  now,  and  will  be  still  more  valu- 
able as  time  goes  by.  In  certain  parts,  his  "  Recollections  of  a 
Busy  Life  "  seems  to  us  one  of  the  most  charming  of  autobiogra- 
phies, charming  as  books  of  that  kind  almost  always  ai-e.  It  is  full 
of  graceful  narrative,  engaging  confidences,  and  reminiscences  of 
men  and  things  which  interest  everybodj\  Of  Mr.  Greeley's  lec- 
tures, speeches,  and  occasional  addresses  it  is  hardly  necessary  for 
us  to  speak.  They  were  listened  to  by  thousands,  and  by  thousands 
are  still  freshly  remembered.  The  late  political  canvass  developed 
Mr.  Greeley's  talents  as  a  public  speaker,  and  it  is  universally  agreed 
that  no  more  able  speeches  were  ever  made  upon  like  occasions. 

We  have  thus  indicated  some  points  of  Mr.  Greeley's  literary 
character  which  at  this  moment  it  seems  proper  to  recall.     He  was 


LETTERS   OF  SYMPATHY.  237 

not  what  is  called,  in  common  parlance,  a  scholar.  He  had  Lnt  lit- 
tle time  to  devote  to  merely  elegant  studies.  He  was  not  dandled  in 
the  arms  of  Alma  Mater ;  liis  early  life  was  but  a  rough  one ;  he 
had  nothing  of  material  fortune  or  of  mental  wealth  of  which  he  did 
not  well  understand  how  he  had  come  by  it;  the  printing-office  was 
his  academy,  and,  perhaps,  all  things  considered,  he  could  not  have 
had  a  better  one.  But  the  robust  intellectual  nature  of  the  man 
was  superior  to  all  accidents  of  fortune,  and  he  gathered,  almost 
without  pausing  in  other  pursuits,  a  fund  of  literary  knowledge 
which  few,  save  professed  students,  possess.  If  he  was  sometimes 
careless  of  the  graces  of  manner,  he  comprehended  well  enough  those 
higher  graces  of  which  the  mind  is  capable.  If  he  was  oftenest  a 
practical  and  unimaginative  workman,  he  still  loved  the  elegance 
and  beauty  of  literature,  and  in  the  intervals  of  his  daily  toil  he 
found  in  books  a  guide  and  a  consolation. 

A    TEIBTTTE    FROM    BATAED   TAYLOR. 

To  THE  Editor  op  The  Tribthste — 

Sir:  The  Tribune  of  December  6th,  which  has  just  reached  me, 
contains  the  following  announcement : 

"  The  Tribune  will  shortly  publish  a  memorial  volume,  contain- 
ing an  obituary  notice  of  Mr.  Greeley,  with  an  account  of  his  last 
illness,  the  popular  honor  to  his  remains  at  the  City  Hall,  the  final 
obsequies,  and  some  of  the  more  careful  editorial  tributes  from  this 
and  other  journals." 

This  will  be  an  appropriate  and  most  fitting  record  of  the  pro- 
found impression  produced  by  the  death  of  our  great  and  beloved 
Friend,  and  of  the  late  honor  accorded  to  the  unselfish  aims  of  his 
life.  But,  I  would  suggest,  is  it  not  also  possible,  now,  when  the 
memory  of  our  past  intercourse  with  him  becomes  clearer  in  the 
keen  light  of  regret  for  his  loss,  to  collect  those  recollections  of 
his  nearest  friends,  which  will  illustrate,  as  nothing  else  can,  the 
soundness  of  his  constant  growth,  the  sweetness  and  strength  of 
his  nature  ? 

Although  the  general  impression  of  his  character  may  have  been 
coi'rect,  yet,  in  certain  particulars,  no  one  has  been  more  thoroughly 
misunderstood.  The  American  people  seem  to  be  slow  to  admit  that 
a  man  may  change  or  develop.  They  seize  upon  a  few  salient,  intel- 
lectual, and  moral  points,  construct  a  rough  sketch  of  the  individual, 
practically  say  :  "  There !  that  is   my  estimate  of  him ! "  and  are 


238  MEMORIAL   OF  nORACE   GREELET. 

careless  in  regard  to  correction  when  time  has  proved  the  sketch  to 
be  false.  It  was  Mr.  Greeley's  misfortune,  not  his  fault,  that  he 
lived  during  a  period  when  all  opinion  seemed  to  take  a  partisan 
form,  among  a  people  who  are  only  now  learning  to  appreciate  that 
moral  and  intellectual  liberality  which  can  broadly  entertain  and 
discuss  all  questions  relating  to  the  well-being  or  the  education  of 
our  race.  He  has  been  called  a  Fourierite,  long  after  he  discovered 
the  unpractical  character  of  Fourier's  system;  a  Spiritualist,  when, 
after  having  honestly  examined,  he  rejected  the  Spiritualistic  theo- 
ries ;  a  Free-lovei-,  while  foremost  in  defending  the  sanctity  of  mar- 
riage ;  a  Vegetarian,  because  of  a  brief  experiment  which  satisfied 
him  that  his  constitution,  at  least,  could  not  be  supported  upon  a  veg- 
etable diet ;  and — absurdest  of  all,  to  those  who  knew  him  nearly — 
he  has  been  charged  with  a  vain  and  purposed  eccentricity  of  dress 
and  manners,  because  Nature,  in  making  him  up,  omitted  that  form 
of  vanity  which  expends  itself  upon  external  graces. 

Some  of  these  misrepresentations  will  die  with  the  animosity 
which  kept  them  alive ;  some  will  slowly  change  as  the  story  of  his 
life  recedes  into  a  truer  perspective ;  but  others  may  remain  to  dis- 
tort his  historic  figure,  if  not  corrected  now.  We  are  aware,  for 
example,  that  many  of  his  true  and  outspoken  friends,  during  the 
late  political  campaign,  felt  one  misgiving,  based  upon  an  instinct 
of  his  goodness,  without  a  proper  knowledge  of  the  high,  intelligent 
sense  of  duty  M'hich  would  have  controlled  even  that .  goodness,  in 
case  of  his  success.  Those  who  stood  near  to  him  knew  that  he  was 
never  alienated  by  individual  weaknesses :  that  his  magnanimity, 
though  abused,  manifested  itself  again  and  again ;  and  that  his  pri- 
vate help  or  encouragement  was  frequently  given  to  those  who 
seemed  unworthy  of  it.  But  they  also  knew  that  he  was  therein 
responsible  to  himself  alone ;  they  knew,  often  through  direct  per- 
sonal experience,  that,  wherever  an  imjiortant  principle  was  involved, 
he  could  sternly  hold  his  emotional  nature  at  bay ;  and  they  never 
believed  that,  Avere  he  elevated  to  a  position  of  trust,  he  could  be 
swayed  by  ra&rc\Y  personal  influences. 

The  opportunity  to  manifest  these  higher  qualities  of  his  nature 
was  denied  him  ;  his  life  is  a  column  without  the  capital.  Many 
may  say  that,  though  of  noble  material,  it  was  coarsely  and  clumsily 
fashioned.  Wliy  should  not  those  who  know  him  better,  now  bring 
to  light  those  finer  and  more  delicate  traits  which  resolve  many 
stronger  features  into  harmony  ? 


LETTERS   OF   SYMPATHY.  239 

My  own  intercourse  with  him,  though  often  interrupted  by  ab- 
sence or  divergence  of  labor,  was  frank  at  the  start,  and  grew  closer 
and  more  precious  with  every  year.  In  all  my  experience  of  men 
I  have  never  found  one  whose  primitive  impulses  revealed  them 
selves  with  such  marvelous  pui'ity  and  sincerity.  His  nature  often 
seemed  to  me  as  crystal-clear  as  that  of  a  child.  In  my  younger  and 
more  sensitive  days  he  often  gave  me  a  transient  wound ;  but  such 
wounds  healed  without  a  scar,  and  I  always  found,  afterward,  that 
they  came  from  the  lance  of  a  physician,  not  from  the  knife  of  an 
enemy. 

I  first  saw  Mr.  Greeley  in  June,  1844,  when  I  was  a  boy  of  nine- 
teen. I  applied  to  him  for  an  engagement  to  write  letters  to  The 
Tribune  from  Germany.  His  reply  was  terse  enough.  "  No  descrip- 
tive letters  !  "  he  said  ;  "  I  am  sick  of  them.  When  you  have  been 
there  long  enough  to  know  something,  send  to  me,  and,  if  there  is 
anything  in  your  letters,  I  will  publish  them."  I  waited  nearly  a 
year,  and  then  sent  seventeen  letters,  which  were  published.  They 
were  shallow  enough,  I  suspect ;  but  what  might  they  not  have  been 
without  his  warning '? 

Toward  the  end  of  1847,  while  I  was  engaged  in  the  unfortunate 
enterprise  of  trying  to  establish  a  weekly  paper  in  Phoenixville, 
Penn.,  I  wrote  to  him — foreseeing  the  failure  of  my  hopes — asking 
his  assistance  in  procuring  literary  work  in  New  York.  He  advised 
me  (as  I  suspect  he  has  advised  thousands  of  young  men)  to  stay  in 
the  country.  But  I  had  stayed  in  the  country,  and  a  year  too  long ; 
so  another  month  found  me  in  New  York,  in  his  ofiice,  with  my  story 
of  disappointment,  and  my  repeated  request  for  his  favorable  influ- 
ence. "  I  think  you  are  mistaken,"  he  said  ;  "  but  I  will  bear  you 
in  mind,  if  I  hear  of  any  chance." 

Six  weeks  afterward,  to  my  great  surprise  (for  I  supposed  he 
had  quite  forgotten  me),  he  sent  for  me,  and  offered  me  a  place  on 
The  T'ihune.  I  worked  hard  and  incessantly  during  the  summer 
of  1 848,  hearing  never  a  word  of  commendation  or  encouragement ; 
but  one  day  in  October  he  suddenly  came  to  my  desk,  laid  his  hand 
upon  my  shoulder  and  said :  "  You  have  been  faithful ;  but  now  you 
need  rest.  Take  a  week's  holiday,  and  go  into  New  England."  I 
obeyed,  and  found,  on  my  return,  that  he  had  ordered  my  salary  to 
be  increased. 

I  think  none  of  his  associates,  at  that  time,  ever  wrote  a  line 
which  he  did  not  critically  read.     His  comments  sometimes  seemed 


240  ME^IORIAL   OF   HORACE   GREELEY. 

rough,  but  they  were  ahvays  wholesome  and  almost  invariably  just. 
Once  he  called  me  into  his  room,  pointed  to  a  poem  of  mine,  which 
had  just  appeared  in  a  literary  magazine,  and  abruptly  asked  :  "  Why 
did  you  publish  that  gassy  stuft"? "  My  indignation  was  even  greater 
than  my  astonishment.  I  retorted,  fiercely:  "Mr.  Greeley,  I  should 
feel  hurt  by  your  question,  if  I  had  any  respect  whatever  for  your 
judgment  in  regard  to  poetry  !  "  He  smiled  a  sad,  forgiving  smile, 
and  said  nothing.  Years  afterward,  I  saw  that  he  was  right:  the 
poem  was  only  a  piece  of  sounding  rhetoric,  for  Avhich  "gassy "was 
perhaps  a  coarse  but  certainly  not  an  inappropriate  epithet.  In  this, 
as  in  other  respects,  the  discipline  to  which  he  subjected  me,  was 
excellent :  if  not  the  result  of  his  intellectual  perception,  it  mani- 
fested an  instinct  even  more  remarkable. 

Two  pictures,  equally  illustrative  of  the  man,  remain  with  me 
from  that  first  year.  One,  an  afternoon  in  the  little  editorial  ofBce 
under  the  roof:  Mr,  Greeley  bending  over  the  yellow  transfer-paper 
on  whicli  the  telegraphic  dispatches  were  written.  The  light  from 
the  window  fell  upon  the  toj)  of  his  bald  head,  which  presented  its 
full  circumference  to  me  as  he  leaned  down.  I  was  looking  at  it, 
vacantly,  when  I  saw  a  fiery  scarlet  flush  rise  from  his  neck  and 
temples,  like  a  wave,  and  flood  the  white  crown.  The  next  moment 
he  rose,  threw  back  his  head,  and  uttered  a  fearful  shriek.  For  a 
minute,  nearly,  I  thought  him  mad.  He  flung  his  hands  up  and 
down,  cried  :  "It  has  come  !  It  has  come  !  "  and  laughed  in  a  half- 
delirious  ecstasy.  It  was  the  news  of  the  passage  of  the  Wilmot 
Proviso. 

Another  day,  his  little  son  Arthur,  whose  exquisite  features,  blue 
eyes,  and  golden  hair,  remain  in  my  memory  as  a  moi'e  angelic  appa- 
rition than  any  cherub-face  Avhich  Raphael  ever  painted,  came  into 
the  office  to  meet  him,  on  his  return  from  a  journey.  When  he  saw 
the  boy  he  gave  a  similar  shriek,  caught  him  under  the  arms, 
tossed  him  aloft,  and  finally  clasped  him  to  his  breast  with  a  word- 
less outcry  of  passionate  love  and  joy,  so  intense  that  I  almost  shud- 
dered to  hear  it.  I  felt  then  that  I  had  caught  one  of  the  clues  to  a 
correct  understanding  of  his  nature  ;  that  he  was  "  dowered  with  a 
love  of  love,"  which,  in  this  reticent  world,  feels  itself  to  be  some- 
thing akin  to  Aveakness,  and  often  feigns  its  opposite  in  order  to 
mask  its  presence.  He  did  not  see,  nor  do  the  most  so  dowered  see, 
that  it  equally  belongs  to  the  strength  of  strength. 

I  have  had  many  differences  of  opinion  with  Mr.  Greeley,  but  I 


LETTERS   OF  SYMPATHY.  241 

can  conscientiously  declare  that  there  was  none  of  them  which  did 
not  finally  draw  me  tlie  closer  to  him.  A  little  more  than  a  year 
ago  he  publislied  an  article  which  I  thouglit  unjust  to  a  government 
official,  who  is  an  intimate  personal  friend  of  mine.  I  wrote  to  him 
at  once,  objecting  to  his  views,  and  claiming,  at  least,  a  suspension 
of  judgment.  He  replied,  giving  his  reasons  for  the  unfriendly  crit- 
icism, yet,  as  I  thought,  according  too  little  weight  to  my  contrary 
representations.  I  wrote  again,  and  more  earnestly  than  before — so 
earnestly,  indeed,  that,  after  the  letter  was  dispatched,  I  felt  that  he 
might  have  reason  to  feel  offended  at  some  of  the  expressions  it 
contained.  But  when  I  met  him,  he  stretched  out  his  hand,  with 
that  smile  of  ineffable  sweetness,  which  no  one  can  ever  forget  upon 
whom  it  fell,  said  :  "  Are  you  still  angry  with  me  ?  "  patiently  heard 
my  explanation,  and  assured  me  that,  so  soon  as  it  should  be  con- 
firmed by  circumstances,  full  reparation  would  be  made. 

We,  who  know  best — perhaps  who  only  know — how  lofty,  con- 
sistent, and  utterly  unselfish  were  Mr.  Greeley's  aspirations  with  re- 
gard to  The  Tribune,  know  also,  from  innumerable  incidents  of  our 
long  intercourse  with  him,  how  many  sound,  noble,  and  steadfast 
traits  of  his  character  have  escaped  the  public  observation.  It  is, 
perhaps,  a  question  of  taste,  how  much  of  this  may  now  be  related ; 
yet  it  seems  to  me  that  since  death,  by  paralyzing  slander  and  false- 
hood, has  set  his  life  in  clearer  proportions  befoi'e  the  world,  the 
rubbish  of  early  estimates  and  later  misconceptions  might  also,  with 
propriety,  be  cleared  away.  There  are  many,  in  addition  to  his 
associates  in  The  Tribune — especially  many  noble,  earnest-minded 
women,  whose  purer  impulses  few  men  were  better  qualified  to  hon- 
or than  he — whose  reminiscences  of  his  ways  and  words  would  add 
to  the  fidelity  of  his  historical  portrait. 

Let  me  say,  once  for  all — and  I  am  almost  ashamed  to  mention  a 
subject  so  trivial — that,  whatever  might  have  been  his  carelessness 
in  regard  to  certain  conventionalitiesof  society,  Horace  Greeley  was 
by  nature  a  gentleman.  He  lacked  the  peculiar  talent  for  tying  a 
cravat  elegantly  ;  he  sometimes  drew  up  his  trowsers  to  prevent 
them  from  being  covered  with  mud ;  he  preferred  a  soft  felt  hat  to 
the  hideous  fashionable  stove-pipe;  but,  when  he  entered  an  assem- 
bly of  ladies  and  gentlemen,  the  best,  the  most  intelligent,  the  most 
refined,  came  to  him  by  natural  attraction.  Never,  in  all  his  life, 
was  he  guilty  of  an  act  so  boorish  and  vulgar  as  that  of  those  who 
misrepresented  his  dress  and  manners   during  the  recent  campaign. 

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242  MEilORTAL   OF  HOEACE   GREELEY. 

In  his  last  letter  to  me,  written  on  the  18th  of  August,  1872,  he 
says :  *'  I  feel  sure  tliat,  M'hile  my  election  would  pacify  the  country 
as  it  should  be  pacified,  my  nomination  and  canvass,  even  though 
unsuccessful,  tends  to  the  same  end." 

Herein  he  expressed  the  simple  basis  of  his  ambition.  Those 
who  accuse  him  of  having  bailed  Jeff  Davis  solely  with  a  view  to 
this  later  candidacy,  have  had  their  perceptions  so  confused  by  the 
study  of  the  typical  American  politician,  that  they  are  quite  inca- 
pable of  comprehending  an  action  inspired  by  humane  and  Christian 
motives.  I  confess,  viewing  the  campaign  at  this  distance,  separated 
from  the  temporary  excitements  to  which  we  must  charitably  allow 
their  full  influence,  nothing  in  my  own  experience  of  our  politics  has 
so  shocked  me  as  the  swift  forgetfulness  of  all  Mr.  Greeley's  former 
services,  the  infamous  attempts  to  defile  his  past  aspirations,  the 
conscienceless  efforts  to  misrepresent  him  to  the  American  people, 
which  have  characterized  his  political  opponents.  The  silence  of 
slander  in  the  presence  of  death  is  not  enough  to  atone  for  such  in- 
juries. If  our  people  appreciate  Horace  Greeley's  character,  honor 
his  memory,  are  grateful  for  his  honest  services  to  them,  they  can 
only  prove  it  by  learning  to  combat  opinions  without  dragging  those 
who  hold  them  through  the  mire  of  vulgar  aspersion.  Honor  to 
the  dead  is  not  equivalent  to  justice  to  the  living.  If  Horace  Gree- 
ley yearned,  with  all  the  force  of  his  nature,  for  any  one  thing,  it 
was  for  the  simplest  recognition  of  his  honest  aims.  He  never  mis- 
took the  popular  curiosity  for  fame ;  he  never  craved  that  fame 
which  is  a  burden  to  its  possessor  ;  but  during  forty  tireless,  sleep- 
less years  of  labor,  his  proud  sensitive  soul  sought  everywhere  for 
the  signs  that  his  work  was  understood,  though  never  asking,  never 
betraying,  its  yearning. 

If  my  proposition  for  a  collection  of  personal  reminiscences  from 
those  who  knew  him  best  sliould  not  seem  appropriate,  allow  me,  at 
least,  to  add  my  Blight  testimony  to  the  virtues,  the  strength,  and 
the  consistency  of  character  of  our  revered  Friend.  I  have  given 
only  a  few  incidents  out  of  the  memories  of  many  years,  and  I  have 
no  memories  to  conflict  with  the  impression  of  his  sweet  and  noble 
humanity,  which  I  have  here  endeavored  to  reproduce. 

B.  T. 

GoTUA,  Gebsiant,  Dec.  23, 1873. 


LETTERS   OF  SYMPATHY.  243 


HIS    EXAMPLE. 

Cornell  University,  Ithaca,  N.  Y.,  Deo.  2, 1872. 

Mt  Dear  Feiexd  :  Excuse  me  for  delaying  thus  long  my  words 
of  sympathy.  I  have  not  before  been  able  to  bring  my  mind  to  the 
task.  "  Horace  Greeley  is  dead."  "When  the  sad  news  was  flashed 
upon  us  on  Saturday  last,  it  came  as  lightning  from  a  clear  sky, 
stunning  and  bewildering  our  senses. 

To  you,  who  have  know  him  so  long  and  loved  him  so  well,  the 
blow  is  still  more  severe.  To  you  and  to  his  children  I  tender  the 
deepest  sympathy  of  my  heart. 

Though  my  personal  acquaintance  with  Mr.  Greeley  was  slight, 
I  have  known  and  admired  him  through  The  Tribune  from  its  ear- 
liest publication. 

His  industry,  his  determined  perseverence,  his  love  of  his  race, 
his  benevolence,  his  honesty,  his  boldness  in  the  advocacy  of  what 
he  believed  to  be  right,  were  the  elements  of  my  admiration. 

His  example  is  a  priceless  endowment  to  the  young  men  of 
America. 

I  have  called  a  special  meeting  of  our  Trustees  for  Thursday,  to 
take  suitable  action  in  reference  to  his  death. 

Mr.  Greeley  is  the  third  Trustee  the  Cornell  University  has  been 
called  upon  to  mourn  since  its  organization.  Wm.  Andrus,  Esq.,  of 
Ithaca,  the  Hon.  William  Kelley  of  Rhinebeck,  and  now  Horace 
Greeley — all  members  of  our  first  Board,  all  ornaments  of  the  Insti- 
tution and  of  society.  Their  departure  makes  a  breach  in  the  Board 
that  we  must  fill  with  younger  men,  but  can  not  fill  with  abler  men. 

May  we  accept  the  sad  event  as  a  lesson  for  our  good,  and  with 
feelings  of  deeper  sympathy  and  kinder  regards  for  our  fellow-men 
perform  our  own  duties,  and  manfully  battle  for  the  right.  In  sym- 
pathy and  love,  I  remain,  Ezra  Cornell. 

REST   AT  LAST. 

To  THE  Editor  of  The  Trtbunb — 

Sir  :  I  can  not  make  it  seem  to  me  that  the  great  old  man  is 
really  gone.  And  yet  the  echoes  of  his  departure  are  loud  enough. 
He  fell  in  truth  "as  falls  on  Mount  Avernus  a  thunder-smitten  oak." 
There  is  nowhere  in  the  round  of  the  earth  where  Christian  and  civil- 
ized men  abide  a  place  in  which  his  loss  will  not  awaken  emotions 
of  personal  sorrow,  as  his  life  inspired  sentiments  of  veneration  and 


244  MEMORIAL   OF  HORACE   GREELEY. 

honor.  It  is  not  given  to  many  in  this  world  to  do  so  much  good 
to  their  generation  as  Mr.  Greeley  was  permitted  to  do  ;  possibly 
the  consciousness  that  he  was  so  ordained  of  Providence  may  have 
been  sweeter  to  him  than  what  we  call  happiness.  Of  this  he  could, 
according  to  general  notions,  have  little.  Ilis  life  began  in  wintry 
poverty,  and  throughout  all  its  years  there  was  such  hurrying  dili- 
gence, such  a  crowd  and  tumult  of  duties,  so  much  fighting  and 
wrangling  by  the  wayside,  too ;  so  much  obloquy  (which  no  man 
in  any  age  ever  has  deserved);  so  many  bereavements  which  never 
were  rushed  on  a  tenderer  heart,  that  altogether  he  found  here,  I 
think,  little  of  that  peace  which  passeth  understanding  ;  little  of  the 
rest  and  tranquillity  which  all  our  toils  strive  to  earn  for  us.  I  think 
there  will  be  welcome  to  him  in  the  still  kingdom  whither  he  has 
gone.  It  was  said  that  the  Gods  in  Hades  rose  when  Napoleon 
came  among  them.  "The  wise  and  the  good,  fair  forms  and  hoary 
seers  of  ages  past,"  who  have  gone  down  into  the  land  of  shadows 
before  him,  will,  I  think,  welcome  the  great  old  chief  with  equal 
honors.  T.  C.  E. 

Brooklyn,  Dec.  3, 1873. 

AN    OPEN   LETTEK   TO    THE     PRESIDENT    OF   THE    UNITED    STATES. 

SiK :  I  trust  that  I  shall  not  be  charged  with  presumption  in  ad- 
dressing you  on  the  subject  of  this  letter.  I  want  to  thank  you,  not 
for  any  favor  bestowed  on  my  friends,  or  shown  to  me.  Thanks  for 
such  things  are  as  common  as  the  benefits  they  confer.  I  desire  to 
thank  you  for  something  greater  and  better  than  these  ;  for  some- 
thing much  beyond  the  ordinary  practice  of  high  official  life.  I  de- 
sire to  thank  you  for  the  respect  shown  by  you  to  Mr.  Greeley  on 
his  death-bed,  and  for  the  great  respect  you  paid  his  character  and 
memory  by  your  attendance  on  his  funeral.  It  was  a  great  compli- 
ment for  the  head  of  a  great  nation  to  decline  attendance  on  an  of- 
ficial festivity  while  a  private  citizen  was  dying,  a  citizen  who  had 
no  claims  on  the  sympathy  of  the  official,  cither  of  blood  or  close 
friendship.  It  was  a  much  greater  compliment  when  that  Execu- 
tive laid  aside  the  pressing  duties  of  his  great  office,  and,  making  a 
night  journey  of  hundreds  of  miles  at  an  inclement  season,  took  the 
place  of  a  private  person,  among  the  thousands  gathered  together 
to  pay  the  last  tribute  of  respect  that  the  living  can  pay  tlie  dead. 
For  your  remembrance  of  Mr.  Greeley,  dying ;  for  your  attendance 
at  his  funeral ;  for  the  tearful  attention  you  paid  to  the  sad  ceremo- 


FROM  THE  POETS.  245 

nies  of  that  occasion,  Mr.  President,  I  thank  you  with  all  earnest- 
ness. I  am  very  sure  that  in  doing  so  I  but  echo  the  sentiments  of 
hundreds  of  thousands  of  your  fellow-citizens,  Avhose  views  of  public 
affairs  led  them  and  myself  to  support,  in  the  late  canvass,  the  man 
to  whom  you  have  shown  such  high  respect.  By  these  acts  you 
have  I'emoved  prejudices,  changed  opponents  into  friends,  and  shown 
the  world  that  great  official  life  need  not  deaden  the  better  instincts 
of  our  common  humanity.  By  these  acts  you  have  taught  the  na- 
tions that  Americans  never  forget  what  is  due  to  the  character  of 
their  great  citizens,  and  that  the  passions  of  an  exciting  political 
contest  never  destroy  the  respect  that  American  partisan  opponents 
have  for  the  good  lives  of  good  men. 

I  thank  you,  Mr.  President,  and  pray  that  a  long  and  happy  life 
may  await  you.  And  when  it  shall  please  the  Great  Ruler  to  send 
the  angel  of  Death  to  call  you  hence,  may  your  passage  to  the  tomb 
be  made  smooth  by  the  affections  of  kind  friends,  and  the  grave  close 
over  you  with  the  heartfelt  prayers  of  your  countrymen  for  your 
eternal  rest.  Very  respectfully,  your  friend, 

Sinclair  Touskt. 

New  York,  Dec.  6, 1872. 


BEFORE    THE    BURIAL. 
[FVom  The  Tribune,  Dec.  3.] 

Earth,  let  thy  softest  mantle  rest. 

This  wearied  child  to  thee  returning. 
Whose  youth  was  nurtured  at  thy  breast, 

Who  loved  thee  with  such  tender  yearning  I 
He  knew  thy  fields  and  woodland  ways. 

And  deemed  thy  humblest  son  his  brother : 
Asleep,  beyond  our  blame  or  praise. 

We  yield  him  back,  O  gentle  Mother ! 

Of  praise,  of  blame,  he  drank  his  fill : 

Who  has  not  read  the  life-long  story  ? 
And  dear  we  hold  his  fame,  but  still 

The  man  was  dearer  than  his  gloiy. 
And  now  to  us  are  left  alone 

The  closet  where  his  shadow  lingers, 
The  vacant  chair — that  was  a  throne — 

The  pen,  just  fallen  from  his  fingers. 


246  3IEM0EIAL   OF  HOEACE   GREELEY. 

Wrath  changed  to  kindness  on  that  pen  ; 

Though  dipped  in  gall  it  flowed  with  honey ; 
One  flash  from  out  the  cloud,  and  then 

The  skies  with  smile  and  jest  were  sunny  •. 
Of  hate  he  surely  lacked  the  art, 

Who  made  his  enemy  his  lover : 
O  reverend  head  and  Christian  heart ! 

Where  now  their  like  the  whole  world  over  ? 

He  saw  the  goodness,  not  the  taint. 

In  many  a  poor,  do-nothing  creature, 
And  gave  to  sinner  and  to  saint. 

But  kept  his  faith  in  human  nature  ; 
Perchance  he  was  not  worldly-wise, 

Yet  we  who  noted,  standing  nearer, 
The  shrewd,  kind  twinkle  in  his  eyes, 

For  every  weakness  held  him  dearer. 

Alas  !  that  mito  him  who  gave 

So  much,  so  little  should  be  given! 
Himself  alone,  he  might  not  save 

Of  all  for  whom  his  hands  had  striven. 
Place,  freedom,  fame,  his  work  bestowed : 

Men  took,  and  passed,  and  left  him  lonely ; 
What  mai-vel,  if  beneath  his  load, 

At  times  he  craved  for  justice  only ! 

Yet  thanklessness,  the  serpent's  tooth, 

His  lofty  purpose  could  not  alter ; 
Toil  had  no  power  to  bend  his  youth, 

Or  make  his  lusty  manhood  falter ; 
From  envy's  sling,  from  slander's  dart, 

That  armored  soul  the  body  shielded. 
Till  one  dark  sorrow  chilled  his  heart. 

And  then  he  bowed  his  head,  and  yielded. 

Now,  now  we  measure  at  its  worth 

The  gracious  presence  gone  forever  I 
The  wrinkled  East,  that  gave  him  birth. 

Laments  with  every  laboring  river  ; 
Wild  moan  the  free  winds  of  the  West 

For  him  who  gathered  to  her  prairies 
The  sous  of  men,  and  made  each  crest 

The  haunt  of  happy  household  fairies ; 

And  anguish  sits  upon  the  mouth 
Of  her  who  came  to  know  him  latest : 

His  heart  was  ever  thine,  O  South  I 
He  was  thy  truest  friend,  and  greatest  1 


FEOM  THE  POETS. 


247 


He  shunned  thee  in  thy  splendid  shame, 

He  stayed  thee  in  thy  voiceless  sorrow ; 
The  day  thou  shalt  forget  his  name, 

Fair  South,  can  have  no  sadder  morrow. 

The  tears  that  fall  from  eyes  unused— 

The  hands  above  his  grave  united — 
The  words  of  men  whose  lips  he  loosed. 

Whose  cross  he  bore,  whose  wrongs  he  righted— 
Could  he  but  know,  and  rest  with  this ! 

Yet  stay,  through  Death's  low-lying  hollow, 
His  one  last  foe's  insatiate  hiss 

On  that  benignant  shade  would  follow  I 

Peace !  while  we  shroud  this  man  of  men 

Let  no  unhallowed  word  be  spoken ! 
He  will  not  answer  thee  again. 

His  mouth  is  sealed,  his  wand  is  broken. 
Some  holier  cause,  some  vaster  trust 

Beyond  the  vail,  he  doth  inherit : 
O  gently,  Earth,  receive  his  dust. 

And  Heaven  soothe  his  troubled  spirit !  E.  C.  8. 


A   PURE    AND    FAITHFUL    SOUL. 

L 

Was  there  no  other  way  than  this, 

O  faithful  Soul,  to  smite  with  silence  those. 

Too  base  for  filends,  less  generous  than  foes. 

The  unrelenting  pack 

That  followed  thee,  and  made  along  thy  track 

The  boor's  coarse  jest,  the  slimy  serpent's  hiss  ?— 

Was  there  no  other  way  than  this  ? 

n. 
Ah,  they  to  whom  the  hatred  of  a  clan 
Seems  nobler  than  the  honesty  of  man. 
Pause,  startled  at  thy  grave. 
And  where  they  sought  to  ruin,  now  would  save  1 
Their  jibes  are  heard  no  more. 
And,  stammering  into  truth,  subsides  the  lie : 
For  such  a  conquest,  must  thou  die. 
When  Life  no  less  had  made  thee  conqueror  ? 

in. 
Too  dear  the  price  we  pay 
Who  saw  thy  patient  purpose  day  by  day 
Unfolded,  that  the  full  design  might  be 
Embodied  Love,  incarnate  Charity, 


248  MEMORIAL  OF  HORACE   GREELEY. 

"War's  blotches  washed  away, 

And  God's  impartial  justice  shown  in  thee! 

We  stood  beside  thee  at  thy  post, 

And,  knowing  nearest,  loved  tliee  most : 

We  would  have  given  our  bosoms  for  a  shield 

Against  the  arrows  sped 

To  harm  thy  wise  and  gentle  head. 

But  in  thy  goodness  thou  wert  triply  steeled  f 

We  knew — as  thou  didst,  never  man  forbore : 

We  knew — as  thou  didst,  never  man  forgave : 

Art  still,  O  brain,  high  Duty's  patient  slave? 

O  heart,  devoid  of  malice,  beat'st  no  more  ? 

rv. 
For  all  your  silenced  slanders,  give  us  worse ! 
Renew  the  loathsome  noises  of  the  fight, 
Forgetfulness  of  what  he  did,  and  spite 
Of  party  hate,  the  Nation's  waxing  curse, 
So  ye  for  us  preserve 

One  honest  man,  like  him,  who  will  not  swerve 
From  what  the  large  heart  dictates  to  the  brain ; 
Or,  call  him  back  again 
Who  felt,  where  others  planned  ; 
Who  cast  away  the  mantle  of  a  name 
And  saw  his  naked  nature  turned  to  blame  ; 
Who  narrower  fealties  beneath  him  trod, 
In  stern  consistency  to  God  ! 
There  is  no  child  in  all  the  land, 
Bui  might  have  craved  the  blessing  of  his  hand  : 
There  is  no  threshold  but  his  feet 
Might  cross,  a  messenger  of  counsel  sweet, 
Of  peace  and  patience  and  forgiving  love, 
Of  Toil  that  bends  and  Faith  that  looks  above ! 

V. 

In  vain  !  our  cry  is  vain : 

We  can  but  turn,  pure  Soul,  to  thee  again. 

So  much  of  large  beneficence  thy  mind 

For  all  the  race  designed. 

So  much  thy  heart  inclosed  of  brotherhood 

And  ardent  hope  of  good. 

Thou  leavcst  us  thyself  in  these  behind ! 

We  can  not  grieve  as  those  who  do  not  trust : 

We  knew  thee  nearest,  loved  thee  most, 

And  thou,  a  sacred  ghost. 

Already  risen  from  thy  fallen  dust, 

Speak'st,  as  of  old,  to  us :  "  Be  firm,  be  pure,  be  just ! " 

Bayard  Taylor. 
QoTHA,  Germany,  Dec.  1, 1872. 


FKOM   THE   POETS.  249 

THE    DEAD. 

As  if  in  lone  Franconia  one  bad  said, 

"  Alas !  the  glorious  Monarch  of  the  Hills, 

Mount  Washington,  is  fallen  to  the  vale ! 

The  direful  echo  all  the  silence  fills ; 

The  winds  sweep  down  the  gorge  with  bitter  wail; 

The  lesser  hlghts  rise  trembling  and  disma)-ed, 

And  the  fond  sun  goes,  clouded,  to  the  west ;  "- 

So  to  the  street,  the  fireside,  came  the  cry, 

"  Our  King  of  Men,  our  boldest,  gentlest  heart, 

He  whose  pure  front  was  nearest  to  the  sky. 

Whose  feet  stood  firmest  on  Eternal  Right ; 

With  his  swift  sympathies  and  giant  might 

That  sealed  him  for  the  martyr's,  warrior's  part, 

And  led,  through  loss,  to  nobler  victory — 

Lies  low,  to-day,  in  death's  unchallenged  rest!" 

How  we  entombed  him !    Not  imperial  Rome 
Gave  her  dead  Caesars  sepulture  so  grand. 
Though  gems  and  purple  on  the  pyre  were  flung ! 
His  tender  requiem  hushed  the  clamorous  land ; 
And  thus,  b}--  Power  lamented,  Poet  sung. 
Through  stricken,  reverent  crowds  we  bore  him  home 
When  winter  skies  were  fair  and  winds  were  still ! 
And  for  his  fame — while  oceans  guard  our  shores 
And  mountains  midway  lift  their  peaks  of  snow 
To  the  clear  azure  where  the  eagle  soars ; 
While  Peace  is  sweet,  and  the  world  yearns  again 
To  hear  the  angel  strain,  "  Good  will  to  men  ;" 
While  toil  brings  honor.  Virtue  vice  deplores. 
And  liberty  is  precious — it  shall  grow. 
And  the  great  future  witli  his  spmt  fill ! 

Edna  Dean  Proctor. 


GONE. 
I. 

When  rare  lives  drop,  Nature  runs  on  the  same: 
No  dizzy  star  forgets  to  hunt  its  goal, 
The  moon-drawn  tide's  undeviating  roll, 

Serene  as  on  the  eve  when  first  they  came. 

Fair  Hesper  starts  from  sunset's  fixding  flame. 
And  steady  spins  our  planet  round  her  pole. 
So  little  do  they  miss  a  strenuous  soul, 

So  easy  spare  a  noble,  vanished  name ! 

Feel  you  no  stir  of  pity,  selfish  Earth, 


250  MEMORIAL   OF  HORACE  GREELEY. 

That  your  white  clasp  can  lock  him  from  our  eyes  ? 
Oh,  mighty  Mother,  you  that  gave  him  birth, 

How  still  within  your  folding  arms  he  lies  I 
A  tired  child  held  to  yoiu*  sacred  breast. 
Nor  love,  nor  tears  may  break  his  dreamless  rest 

n. 

Yet  heard  he  not  the  people's  cry  ?  nor  hears  ? 

The  tender  passion  of  a  sorrowing  State, 

Mourning  as  nation's  mourn  their  good  and  great; 
Nor  felt,  nor  feels  he  now  our  aching  tears  ? 
Too  soon  didst  thou  take  up  thy  sullen  shears 

To  clip  his  gracious  days,  ungracious  Fate ! 

And  we  for  whom  he  wrought  lament  too  late 
The  generous  heart  strung  with  ungenerous  jeers. 
Oh,  in  that  land  whereunto  he  has  passed, 

This  Friend,  whose  strong  fine  fiber  snapped  and  broke 

Beneath  sore  braises — heavy  stroke  on  stroke — 
The  land  where  each  hath  leave  to  rest  at  last — 

Do  human  plaudits  comfort  him  above  ? 

Or  is  he  pleased  with  our  remorseful  love  ? 

Rachel  Pomeroy. 


IN    MEMORY. 

A  ROYAL  soul  we  knew  not  how  to  crown 
Stood  up  transfigured  at  death's  darksome  portal, 

Through  which  we  caught  the  God-light  streaming  down, 
Opened  that  he  might  pass  to  life  immortal. 

The  strife  of  tongues  was  hushed ;  the  bitter  sneer. 

The  false  ascription  of  unworthy  feeling, 
"Which  wrung  his  heart  and  pained  the  public  ear, 

Were  awed  to  stillness  by  Death's  mute  appealing. 

Oh,  brothers,  was  it  well  ?  the  work  he  wrought — 

His  broad,  quick  sympathies — his  life's  devotion 
To  noble  aims — his  zeal  for  ti-uth,  unbought 

By  hope  of  selfish  gain  or  world's  promotion- 
All  these  were  in  j'our  knowledge,  as  he  stood 

The  chosen  chief  of  those  who  asked  a  nation 
To  close  the  long,  hard  strife  of  party  feud — 

To  choose  the  path  of  reconciliation. 

To-day,  above  his  grave  we  hear  your  word 
Of  praise  for  honest  purpose,  grand  ambition, 

Never  by  poor  or  selfish  motives  stirred — 
Seeking  his  country's  good  as  sole  fruition. 


FE03I  THE  POETS.  251 

'Tis  true  ! — 'tis  well ! — but  better  bad  it  come 

A  little  earlier !  tbe  heart  now  lying 
In  voiceless  slumber,  cold,  and  still,  and  dmnb, 

Had  so  been  spared  some  pangs  when  faint  and  dying. 

Farewell,  oh,  earnest  heart !  oh,  royal  soul 
By  right  divine,  a  prince  of  God's  own  making ! 

What  rest,  what  peace,  what  new-born  vigor  stole 
Through  all  thy  being,  in  His  presence  waking  ! 

While  here  the  memory  lingers  of  thy  life 

Of  love  to  God  and  man — its  lesson  pressing 
On  many  a  thoughtful  heart.    From  storm  and  strife 

On  earth,  thy  soul  has  soared — and  leaves  its  blessing. 

Susan  Evelyn  Dickinson. 


A    CHILD    OF    GENIUS. 

I. 

Let  us  not  wail  a  requiem  for  the  Dead, 
Let  us  not  unto  lifeless  clay  be  giving 

The  glist'ning  tears  that  gem  each  darken'd  head ; 

For  though  a  corse  unto  the  grave  was  led, 
It  left  its  soul  behind  it  ever-living ! 


All  men  can  never  rob  us  of  its  light, 

All  clay  can  never  hide  its  grand  reality, 
All  winds  can  never  waft  it  from  our  sight, 
Night  make  it  deeper,  or  the  moon  more  bright, 
It  hath  such  vast,  such  suitable  vitality. 

in. 

He  whom  we  buried  was  in  life  a  child 
Of  genius,  bountiful  and  soul  defiant; 
Humanely  bold,  profoundly  undefiled. 
Untiring,  tender,  and  though  restless,  mild. 
In  heart  a  sage,  in  war-full  force  a  giant. 

rv. 

He  ros^  up  from  the  bosom  of  the  sod 
Like  some  tall  tree,  all  stormy  strife  defying, 

And  won  the  vigor  which  declines  to  plod, 

Inhaling  force  inherited  from  God, 
And  lived  to  make  us  weep  not  at  his  dying. 


252  MEMORIAL   OF  HORACE   GREELEY. 

V. 

For  he  had  won  a  mighty  People's  love, 

And  voiced  the  glorious  duties  of  his  nation : 
To  give  the  hopeful  energy  to  move, 
And  hope  to  hopeless  he  triumphant  strove 
And  crowning  both  met  Death's  transfiguration. 

VI. 

His  soul  vibrated  to  all  Nature's  tones. 

To  roar  of  cataract,  and  to  song  of  throstle; 
But  most  to  misery  and  human  moans : 
He  raged  with  energy  when  mankind's  groans 
Guided  his  daring  as  the  Poor's  Apostle. 

No  race  or  clime  could  give  a  hue  to  wrong, 

Or  plead  to  him  of  human  right's  disparity; 
His  strength  was  not  alone  to  fight  the  strong 
On  the  high  levels  tyrants  march  along, 
But  treading  noiseless  paths  of  saintly  Charity. 

vm. 

To  make  the  heart  enrich  the  patient  brow. 

And  the  Creator  sought  more  by  the  creature; 
To  make  the  Earth  more  fruitful  to  the  plow, 
And  man  develop'd  to  no  falsehood  bow: 
These  were  the  doctrines  lived  to  by  this  Teacher. 


To  clear  a  path  for  hearty  youth's  advance 

O'er  baleful  custom's  greed,  and  bold  profanity ; 
To  transform  gaping,  dull-eyed  ignorance. 
And  make  the  brain  break  guideless  Labor's  trance, 
Were  daily  practice  of  his  Christianity. 

X. 

Irascible  when  honesty  was  fool'd. 

Intractable  when  knaves  the  righteous  bartered  ; 
Yet  Nature  ne'er  a  maid  more  gently  school'd ; 
And  when  some  piteous  plea  his  sense  o'errul'd, 

His  sweet  creduhty  was  Heaven-chartered. 

XI. 

Where'er  the  voice  of  Liberty  took  pari. 

Where'er  man's  exigencies  struggling  took  her, 
There,  in  his  life,  his  motives  took  fresh  start. 
And  in  his  death,  he  e'en  evokes  a  heart 
'Neath  ribs  that  have  been  coffers  but  for  lucre. 


FEOM   THE  POETS.  253 

xn. 
Blind  we  our  eyes,  then,  with  unfruitful  tears — 

Eyes  that  he  lighted  with  a  toilsome  glory ! 
Better  rejoice  at  his  deep-freighted  years 
The  good  God  gave  to  teach  less  hold  compeers 

To  liye  the  Truth,  and  richen  the  land's  story. 

xrri. 
Death  can  not  triumph  where  this  Toiler  won, 

It  can  not  take  the  touchless  though  it  stung  us, 
The  labor  lives  although  the  lab'rer's  gone. 
Therefore  we  praise  the  Power  that  gave  us  one 

"Who  lived,  as  he  lived,  thi-ee-score  years  among  us ! 

xrv. 
Speak !  instantaneous  fire-tongite  of  man, 

His  printer  prototype  allured  from  Heaven ; 
In  words  of  flame  the  whole  round  world  span, 
Light  every  hovel  with  the  life  he  ran. 

And  shake  blood-floated  thrones  with  the  example  given. 

XV. 

O'er  the  broad  continents  let  engines  shriek 

The  name  and  fame  that  symbol  man's  progression ! 
And  snorting  cavalry  of  ocean  break 
Through  serried  ranks  of  waves,  and  bear  the  weak 
Hope  from  the  life  which  was  our  Dead's  possession. 

XVI. 

Oh,  while  we  miss  him  let  us  proudly  feel 

"We  are  the  better  for  his  earth  sojourning ; 
That  his  brave  life  will  to  time  all  reveal 
The  poor  man's  pen  more  grand  than  despot's  steel, 

And  glow  with  thanka  while  wrapp'd  in  wintry  mourning. 

John  Savage. 


254    •  MEMORIAL  OF  HORACE  GREELEY. 

BIOGRAPHY  OF  HORACE  GREELEY. 
[From  The  Tribune  Almanac.'] 

Horace  Greeley,  the  founder  of  The  JVezo  York  Tribune,  was 
born  at  Amherst,  Hillsborough  County,  New  Hampshire,  on  the  3d 
of  February,  1811.  He  was  the  son  of  Zaccheus  and  Mary  ("Wood- 
burn)  Greeley,  and  his  father  was  a  plain,  hardworking  farmer, 
struggling  to  pay  for  land  which  he  had  bought  at  a  high  price, 
and  Mr.  Greeley's  earliest  years  were  passed  in  such  farm  labor  as 
a  mere  boy  was  equal  to — in  riding  horse  to  plow,  in  picking  stones, 
and  in  watching  the  charcoal  pits.  He  himself  states  in  his  "  Re- 
collections "  that  he  was  "  a  feeble,  sickly  child,  often  under  medical 
treatment,  and  unable  to  watch,  through  a  closed  window,  the  fall- 
ing of  rain,  without  incurring  an  instant  and  violent  attack  of  ill- 
ness." His  mother  had  lost  her  two  former  children  just  before  his 
own  birth,  which  led  her  to  regard  him  with  more  than  common 
tenderness  and  anxiety.  From  the  first  he  manifested  signs  of  ex- 
traordinary intelligence.  These  his  mother,  who  was  a  woman  of 
uncommon  intelligence  and  information,  marked  with  affectionate 
interest.  She  was  a  great  reader,  and  she  naturally  imparted  to  her 
child  the  same  love  of  books  which  she  herself  entertained.  3Ir. 
Greeley  says  that  the  stories  which  she  told  him  awakened  in  him 
"  a  thirst  for  knowledge,  and  a  lively  interest  in  reading  and  writ- 
ing." He  could  read  before  he  could  talk — that  is,  before  he  could 
pronounce  the  longer  words.  When  he  was  but  two  years  old  the 
Bible  was  his  favorite  book.  The  newspaper,  which  was  given  to 
him  as  a  plaything,  he  examined  with  curiosity ;  inquiring  first 
about  the  pictures,  then  the  capital  letters,  then  the  smaller  ones. 
At  three  years  of  age,  he  read  correctly  any  book  prepared  for  chil- 
dren, and  at  four  any  book  whatever.  He  himself  draws  a  pretty 
picture  of  his  learning  to  read  at  his  mother's  knee.  "  I  can,"  he 
says,  "  faintly  recollect  her  sitting  at  her  little  wheel  with  her  book 
in  her  lap  whence  I  was  taking  my  daily  lessons ;  and  thus  I  soon 
acquired  the  facility  of  reading  from  a  book  sidewise  or  upside 
down  as  readily  as  in  the  usual  fashion — a  knack  Avhich  I  did  not 
suppose  at  first  peculiar,  but  which,  being  at  length  observed,  be- 
came a  subject  of  neighborhood  wonder  and  fabulous  exaggeration." 
It  has  been  stated  that  so  soon  as  he  could  form  any  resolution,  he 
determined  to  be  a  printer.  In  his  third  Aviutcr,  he  attended  the 
district  school  of  Londonderry,  where  his  maternal  grandfather  re- 


BIOGEAPHY.  255 

sided.  He  was  early  distinguished  for  bis  recitations  and  for  the 
skill  which  he  displayed  in  the  spelling  exercises.  He  was  a  gentle 
and  timorous  child,  but  it  was  observed  that  ghost  stories  never 
frightened  him. 

In  his  seventh  year  even  the  limited  success  which  had  attended 
his  father's  farming  ceased,  and  ruin  could  be  no  longer  postponed 
by  unflinching  hard  work.  "When  the  child  was  ten,  the  ruin  was 
consummated,  and  his  father  was  an  exile  and  fugitive  from  his 
native  State.  He  began  the  hard  business  of  life  again  in  the  town 
of  "Westhaven,  Rutland  County,  Vermont,  where  he  was  employed 
by  a  country  gentleman  of  large  estate.  In  1826,  young  Greeley 
entered  the  office  of  the  Northern  Spectator^  at  East  Poultuey,  Ver- 
mont, as  an  apprentice  to  the  art  of  printing.  He  was  now  at  the 
college  of  which  he  was  destined  to  be  one  of  the  most  distinguished 
graduates.  It  need  not  be  said  that  he  went  on  acquiring,  for  it 
was  nature  with  him  to  acquire.  He  had  a  plenty  of  newspapers  to 
pore  over,  and  a  tolerable  store  of  books.  He  joined  the  village 
Lyceum,  which  was  also  a  Debating  Society,  of  which  he  was  "  the 
real  giant."  His  parents  were  away  upon  a  new  farm  in  Pennsyl- 
vania, but  twice  he  visited  them,  walking  a  great  part  of  the  dis- 
tance of  six  hundred  miles,  and  accomplishing  the  rest  on  a  slow 
canal-boat.  At  this  early  period  he  was  already  a  teetotaler,  and 
though  the  apprentice  boarded  at  a  tavern  where  the  drinking  was 
constant,  he  continued  a  rigorous  abstinent.  His  fund  of  informa- 
tion was  such  that  he  came  to  be  regarded  as  a  sort  of  walking 
encyclopedia,  and  to  him  the  disputes  of  the  villagers  were  referred. 
As  a  printer  he  was  reckoned  the  best  workman  in  the  office.  But 
the  newspaper  made  no  money,  and  when  Horace  was  in  his  twen- 
tieth year  its  publication  was  discontinued.  He  immediately  looked 
out  for  work  elsewhere,  after  he  had  written  his  parents  in  Pennsyl- 
vania, and  he  obtained  employment  as  a  journeyman  in  Jamestown 
and  Lodi,  in  New  York,  and  Erie,  Pennsylvania. 

It  was  in  August,  1831,  that  he  came  to  the  city  of  New  York, 
poor  in  everything  except  good  principles  and  indomitable  energy. 
He  found  employment  first  as  a  compositor,  after  much  difficulty. 
Subsequently,  in  co-partnership  with  a  Mr.  Story,  he  started  the 
Morning  Post,  the  first  penny  daily  ever  printed  in  the  world,  and 
which  soon  glided  into  bankruptcy.  The  printing-office  continued 
obtaining  some  job  work,  and  the  concern  was  becoming  compara- 
tively prosperous  when  Story  Avas  drowned.     Mr.  "Winchester  came 


250  MEMORIAL   OF   HORACE    GREELEY. 

in,  and  the  Nevy-  Yorker  was  started.  This  was  a  literary  news- 
paper, which,  though  its  publication  was  not  long  continued,  won  so 
excellent  a  reputation  that  any  particular  account  of  it  is  here  un- 
necessary. In  Mr.  Greeley's  autobiography  he  gives  a  touching 
account  of  the  difficulties  which  he  encountered  in  this  enterprise. 
The  newspaper  did  a  fairly  good  business,  but  it  was  not  profitable 
to  the  proprietors,  and  the  publication  was  stopped  in  1841.  All 
this  time  Mr.  Greeley  was  eking  out  his  slender  income  by  other 
labors.  He  supplied  leading  articles  to  the  Daily  Whig,  and  had 
previously,  in  1838,  edited  the  Jeffersonian,  a  political  weekly  cam- 
paign paper,  published  in  Albany  and  New  York.  Everybody  will 
remember  the  Log  Cabifi,  the  great  Whig  campaign  newspaper, 
which  Mr.  Greeley  edited  in  the  stormy  contests  of  1840.  The 
weekly  issues  of  the  JLog  Cabin  ran  up  to  eighty  thousand,  and 
with  ample  facilities  for  printing  and  mailing  might  have  been  in- 
creased to  one  hundred  thousand.  Mr.  Greeley  afterward  said 
that,  with  the  machinery  of  distribution  now  existing,  the  circu- 
lation might  have  been  swelled  to  a  quarter  of  a  million. 

On  the  10th  day  of  April,  1841,  the  first  number  of  The  I^ew  York 
Tribune  was  issued.  It  was  a  small  sheet,  retailed  for  a  cent,  "Whig 
in  its  politics,  but,  to  use  ^Ir.  Greeley's  Avords,  "  a  journal  removed 
alike  from  servile  partisanship  on  the  one  hand,  and  from  gagged 
and  mincing  neutrality  on  the  other."  The  editor  went  gallantly  to 
his  work.  He  was  thirty  years  old,  in  full  health  and  vigor,  and 
worth  about  $2,000,  half  of  it  in  printing  material.  Mr.  Greeley  was 
his  own  editor.  Mr.  Henry  J.  Raymond,  afterward  so  celebrated 
in  journalism,  feut  then  a  lad  fresh  from  college,  was  his  first  assist- 
ant, a  post  which  he  continued  to  hold  for  nearly  eight  years.  Mr. 
George  M.  Snow  took  charge  of  the  Wall  Street,  or  financial  de- 
partment, and  held  it  for  more  than  twenty-one  years.  The  Tribune 
was  started  with  five  hundred  names  of  subscribers,  and  of  the  first 
number  five  thousand  were  either  sold  or  given  away.  The  current 
expenses  of  the  first  week  were  $520;  the  receipts  were  $92;  but 
soon  the  income  pretty  nearly  balanced  the  outgo.  About  six 
months  after  the  commencement  of  The  Tribujie,  and  when  it  had 
reached  a  self-sustaining  basis,  Mr.  Thomas  McElrath,  who  had  some 
capital,  took  charge  of  the  business,  leaving  Mr.  Greeley  free  to  at- 
tend to  the  editorial  department,  and  the  fiimous  firm  of  Greeley  & 
McElrath  was  established.  In  Mr.  Greeley's  autobiography  he  pays 
a  warm  tribute  to  the  business  abilities  of  his  partner.     "  He  was," 


BIOGRAPHY.  257 

says  Mr.  Greeley,  "so  safe  and  judicious,  that  the  business  never 
gave  me  any  trouble,  and  scarcely  required  of  me  a  thought,  during 
that  long  era  of  all  but  unclouded  prosperity." 

Of  the  subsequent  career  of  The  Tribune  newspaper,  it  is  hardly 
necessary  that  Ave  should  speak  to  the  readers  of  "The  Tribune 
Almanac."  Not  more  in  what  he  wrote  for  it,  than  in  what  others 
wrote  for  it,  it  bears  the  impress  of  his  vigorous  intellect  and  un- 
swerving integrity ;  of  hi?  unceasing  observation  of  public  affairs, 
and  of  his  indomitable  industry.  It  was  a  Whig  newspaper,  but  it 
was  never  blindly  and  indiscriminately  the  newspaper  of  any  party. 
It  was  always  the  advocate  of  a  liberal  protection  to  American  indus- 
try, but  its  editor  constantly  admonished  the  American  workman 
that  by  assiduity  and  intelligence  he  must  protect  himself.  It  boldly 
discussed  social  questions  ;  it  followed  Fourier  in  his  ideas  of  associ- 
ated labor,  without  indorsing  the  errors  of  his  social  doctrine ;  it 
exposed  the  corruptions  of  New  York  politics,  and  when  the  leaders 
of  the  party  threatened  its  destruction,  it  simply  defied  them,  and 
went  on  with  its  valiant  work ;  it  fought  for  independence  of  criti- 
cism, and  for  the  right  to  publish  the  news,  in  the  libel  suit  which 
Mr.  Cooper  brought  against  it ;  it  introduced  a  better  style  of  lit- 
erary work  than  Avas  common  in  newspapers  at  that  time,  and  em- 
ployed the  best  writers  who  were  to  be  obtained.  It  was  not  too 
busy  Avith  home  affairs  to  forget  the  Avrongs  of  Ireland;  and  it 
always  rebuked  without  mercy  the  spirit  of  caste  which  would  re- 
duce persons  of  African  descent  to  social  degradation.  Ahvays, 
whatever  it  discussed.  The  Tribune,  when  Mr.  Greeley  had  hardly 
anybody  to  help  him  in  its  management  and  conduct,  was  wide- 
awake, vigorous,  and  entertaining.  It  never  forgot  those  Avho  were 
struggling  for  liberty  in  other  lands,  whether  they  were  Irish,  Eng- 
lish, or  French,  Hungarians  or  Poles.  It  Avas  the  newspaper  of 
universal  humanity. 

In  1848,  Mr.  Greeley  Avas  elected  a  member  of  the  House  of 
Representatives,  and  he  served  in  that  body  from  December  1,  of 
that  year,  to  March  4,  1849.  His  career  as  a  national  law-maker 
Avas  a  short  one,  but  he  made  hiniseif  felt.  He  did  not  at  all 
mince  matters  in  writing  to  The  Tribune  his  first  impressions  of 
the  House.  In  the  very  beginning,  he  brought  in  a  bill  to  discour- 
age speculation  in  public  lands,  and  establish  homesteads  upon  the 
same.  The  abuses  of  mileage  he  kept  no  terms  Avith.  Members  did 
not  relish  the  exposure  of  their  dishonesty,  but  all  their  talking  did 

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258  MEMORIAL   OF    HORACE   GREELEY. 

not  in  the  least  disturb  Mr.  Greeley's  equanimity.  Ho  opposed  ap- 
]»ioj)riations  for  furnisliing  members  with  libraries  at  the  public 
exi)ense.  No  meuiber  was  ever  more  faithful  to  his  duties,  and  uo 
one  ever  received  smaller  reward. 

In  1851,  Mr.  Greeley  visited  Europe,  and  in  London  acted  as  one 
of  the  jurors  of  the  great  Exhibilion.  He  also  appeared  before  the 
Parliamentary  Committee  having  under  consideration  the  newspaper 
taxes,  and  gave  important  and  useful  information  respecting  the 
newspaper  press  of  America.  His  letters  written  during  his  absence 
to  TJie  Tribune  are  among  the  most  interesting  productions  of  his 
pen.  In  1855,  Mr.  Greeley  again  visited  Europe  for  the  purpose 
mainly  of  attending  the  French  Exhibition.  In  1856,  he  spent  much 
of  the  winter  in  Washington,  commenting  for  The  Tribune  upon 
the  proceedings  of  Congress,  and  it  was  at  this  time  that  he  w'as 
brutally  assaulted  by  Mr.  Rust,  a  Member  of  Congress  from  Ar- 
kansas. In  1856,  The  Tribune  was  indicted  in  Virginia — at  least  a 
man  was  indicted  for  getting  up  a  club  to  promote  its  circulation,  and 
Mr.  Greeley  was  indicted  with  him.  It  was  of  little  use  that  the 
tone  in  which  TJie  Tribune  discussed  slavery  was  moderate  ;  its 
crime  was  that  it  discussed  the  subject  at  all.  The  absurdity  was  in 
supposing  that  such  a  topic  could  be  kept  out  of  the  newspapers. 

In  1859,  Mr.  Greeley  journeyed  across  the  plains  to  California. 
In  Utah,  he  had  his  well-known  interview  with  Brigham  Young,  by 
which  he  was  more  decidedly  not  convinced  of  the  beauties  of  poly- 
gamy. At  Sacramento  and  San  Francisco  he  had  a  cordial  public 
reception. 

The  National  Convention  of  the  Republican  party  met  in  Chi 
cago  in  May,  1860,  for  the  purpose  of  nominating  a  candidate  for 
the  Presidency.  Mr.  Greeley  attended  the  convention  as  a  delegate 
for  Oregon,  by  request  of  the  Republicans  of  that  State.  The  crisis 
Avas  an  important  one,  and  the  opinions  of  members  in  regard  to  the 
Presidential  nomination  were  various.  The  choice  of  Mr.  Greeley 
was  Edward  Bates,  of  St.  Louis.  "I  believed,"  says  Mr.  Greeley, 
in  his  autobiography,  "  that  he  could  poll  votes  in  every  slave  State, 
and  if  elected,  rally  all  that  was  left  of  the  Whig  i)arty,  therein  to 
resist  secession  and  rebellion.  If  not  the  only  Republican  whose 
election  would  not  suffice  as  a  pretext  for  civil  war,  he  seemed  to  me 
tliat  one  most  likely  to  repress  the  threatened  insurrection,  or,  at  the 
most,  to  crusli  it."  The  convention  having  nominated  Mr.  Lincoln, 
with    Mr.    Hamlin   for  Vice-President,   Mr.    Greeley    cheerfully  ac- 


BIOGRAPHY.  259 

quiesced.  The  election  of  Mr.  Lincoln,  followed  by  a  secession  of 
several  of  the  slave  States,  brought  on  the  rebellion,  Mr.  Greeley 
has  left  on  record  the  course  which  at  that  dangerous  and  difficult 
moment  he  thought  it  the  most  prudent  and  advisable  to  pursue. 
He  took  the  ground  that  if  it  could  be  shown,  upon  a  fair  vote,  that 
a  majority  of  the  citizens  of  the  seceding  States  really  desired  such 
secession,  then  the  remaining  States  should  acquiesce  in  the  rupture. 
"  We  disclaim,"  he  said, "  a  union  of  force — a  union  held  together  by 
bayonets ;  let  us  be  fairly  heard ;  and  if  your  people  decide  that 
they  choose  to  break  away  from  us,  we  will  interpose  no  obstacle  to 
their  peaceful  withdrawal  from  the  Union."  This  doctrine,  nakedly 
stated,  exposed  those  who  propounded  it  to  no  little  misapprehension 
and  consequent  obloquy.  Mr.  Greeley  always  thought  to  the  end 
of  his  life,  that  if  a  fair  vote  could  be  taken,  it  would  be  found  that 
the  South  was  not  for  secession,  and  that  all  the  efibrts  of  the  disuhion- 
ists  had  alienated  but  a  majority  of  the  Southern  States  or  people 
from  the  Federal  Union.  He  even  insisted  that  it  was  because  of  his 
certainty  that  a  majority  of  the  Southern  people  were  not  in  favor 
of  secession,  that  he  urged  the  popular  vote ;  and  that  the  vote, 
wherever  fairly  taken,  fully  confirmed  that  view.  He  believed  that 
the  traitorous  leaders  had  precipitated  action  because  they  feared  that 
delay  would  be  fatal  to  their  schemes.  When  hostilities  had  actu- 
ally commenced,  he  thought  that  the  Government  showed  irresolu- 
tion and  delay.  The  result  was  "  weary  months  of  halting,  timid, 
nerveless,  yet  costly  warfare,"  while  the  rebellion  might  have  been 
stamped  out  ere  the  close  of  1861.  In  1864,  Mr.  Greeley  was 
engaged  in  another  attempt  at  accommodation.  In  consequence  of 
overtures  made  by  Clement  C.  Clay,  of  Alabama,  James  P.  Hol- 
combe,  of  Virginia,  and  George  N,  Sanders,  a  plan  of  adjustment 
was  submitted  by  Mr.  Greeley  to  President  Lincoln.  This  proposed 
the  restoration  and  perpetuity  of  the  Union ;  the  abolition  of  slav- 
ery; amnesty  for  all  political  offenses  ;  the  payment  of  $400,000,000 
five  per  cent.  United  States  stock  to  the  late  slave  States,  to  be  ap- 
portioned pro  rata,  according  to  their  slave  population  ;  representa- 
tion in  the  House  on  the  basis  of  their  total  population  ;  and  a 
national  convention  to  ratify  the  adjustment.  Mi*.  Greeley  believed 
a  just  peace  to  be  attainable.  He  thought  that  even  the  offer  of 
these  terms,  though  they  should  be  rejected,  would  be  of  immense 
advantage  to  the  national  cause,  and  might  even  prevent  a  Northern 
insurrection.      The  negotiations,  it  is  a  matter  of  history,  utterly 


260  MEMOPwIAL   OF   IIOKACE   GREELEY. 

failed,  but  it  would  be  difficult  to  show  tliat  they  did  any  injury 
to  the  cause  of  the  Union.  In  connection  with  the  liiehmond 
neorotiation,  which  was  simultaneous,  they  showed  that  "  the  war 
must  tfo  on  until  the  Confederacy  should  be  recognized  as  an  inde- 
pendent power,  or  till  it  should  be  utterly,  finally  overthrown," 
"  and  the  knowledge  of  this  fact,"  said  Mr.  Greeley  afterward, 
"  was  worth  more  than  a  victory  to  the  national  cause." 

The  final  victory  of  the  Union  arms  was  clouded  by  the  assassi- 
nation of  President  Lincoln.  Mr.  Greeley  summed  up  his  estimate 
of  the  character  of  that  good  man  by  saying:  "  "We  have  had  chief- 
tains who  would  have  crushed  out  the  rebellion  in  six  months,  and 
restored  the  Union  as  it  was,  but  God  gave  us  the  one  leader  whose 
control  secured  not  only  the  downfall  of  the  rebellion,  but  the  eter- 
nal overthrow  of  human  slavery  under  the  flag  of  the  great  Re- 
public." 

In  1864,  Mr.  Greeley  was  a  Presidential  Elector  for  the  State  of 
New  York,  and  a  Delegate  to  the  Philadelphia  Loyalists'  Conven- 
tion. 

The  rebellion  finally  crushed,  and  the  Union  restored,  so  far  as 
operations  in  the  field  could  restore  it,  Mr.  Greeley's  mind  was  at 
once  turned  to  projects  of  real  and  substantial  pacification.  The 
armies  of  the  short-lived  Confederacy  were  scattered,  and  its  great 
chief  was  a  prisoner  in  the  hands  of  the  Federal  authorities — an  un- 
welcome embarrassment,  since  the  Government  could  much  better 
have  connived  at  his  escape  from  the  country.  He  could  have  been 
tried  for  treason ;  but  his  conviction  was  by  no  means  certain,  should, 
he  be  brought  to  trial.  Meanwhile  his  imprisonment  was  prolonged 
with  what  Mr.  Greeley  thought  to  be  "  aggravations  of  harsh  and 
needless  indignity."  He  could  not  be  tried  summarily  by  court- 
martial  and  shot;  if  tried  by  a  civil  court,  he  could  not  possibly 
be  convicted,  at  any  point  where  he  could  legally  be  tried.  The 
provisions  of  the  Federal  Constitution  were  explicit,  that  "in  all 
criminal  prosecutions,  the  accused  vshould  enjoy  the  right  to  a  speedy 
and  public  trial,  by  an  impartial  jury  of  the  State  and  district  where- 
in the  crime  shall  have  been  committed."  Mr.  Greeley  said  frankly 
to  the  attorney  for  Davis,  that  if  his  name  were  necessary  upon  a 
bail  bond,  it  would  not  be  withheld,  "When  apprised  that  his  name 
was  needed,  he  went  to  Richmond,  and,  with  Mr.  Gerrit  Smith,  the 
eminent  Abolitionist,  and  others,  signed  the  bond  in  due  form.  The 
act  has  been  grossly  misrepresented,  and  used  for  partisan  purposes 


BIOGRAPHY.  201 

in  the  unfairest  way.  It  cost  Mr.  Greeley  fair  hopes  of  political 
preferment ;  it  almost  stopped  the  sale  of  his  "  History  of  the  Rebel- 
lion;" and  when  he  became  a  candidate  for  the  Presidency  with  Mr. 
Gerrit  Smith  himself  among  his  most  active  opponents,  the  surety- 
ship for  a  criminal  whom  the  Government  never  tried,  and  never  in- 
tended to  try,  was  constantly  and  bitterly  urged  against  him.  The 
unfairness  of  this  will  now  be  acknowledged  by  the  most  eager  par- 
tisan of  the  Admistration ;  then  it  was  considered  a  sharp  and  clever 
electioneering  expedient. 

In  1867,  Mr.  Greeley  was  a  Delegate-at-Large  to  the  Ncav  York 
State  Convention  for  the  revision  of  the  Constitution,  where  he  was 
prompt  and  efficient  in  the  performance  of  his  official  duties. 

In  1861,  Mr.  Greeley's  friends  presented  his  name  before  the  Re- 
publican Legislative  Caucus  at  Albany  for  U.  S.  Senator,  There 
were  three  Republican  candidates  before  the  caucus,  viz. :  Mr.  Gree- 
ley, Ira  Harris,  and  William  M.  Evarts.  Mr.  Greeley  started  out 
with  a  large  support,  and  for  several  successive  ballots  gained 
largely  upon  his  ojDponents,  but  was  finally  defeated  in  a  nomina- 
tion which  would  have  been  equivalent  to  an  election,  by  reason  of 
the  supporters  of  Mr.  Evarts  going  over  in  a  body  to  Mr.  Harris, 
which  secured  his  nomination,  and,  of  course,  his  election.  During 
that  senatorial  campaign  Mr.  Greeley  was  at  the  West  delivering 
lectures,  and  thence  wrote  to  an  intimate  friend  at  Albany,  saying 
that  he  had  heard  it  intimated  that  some  of  his  supporters  at  the 
State  capital  were  inclined  to  "  fight  fire  with  fire."  To  this  he  en- 
tered his  earnest  protest,  saying  that,  while  he  should  feel  flattered 
with  a  seat  in  the  U.  S.  Senate,  if  it  should  be  the  unbiased  wish  of 
the  Legislature  to  send  him  there,  he  earnestly  hoped  that  no  friend 
of  his  would  do  any  act  to  secure  his  election,  the  publication  of 
which  would  cause  such  friend  to  blush.  Six  years  later,  in  1867, 
Mr.  Greeley's  friends  were  again  anxious  to  send  him  to  the  Semite, 
and  before  the  meeting  of  the  Lesgislature  the  almost  unanimous 
expression  of  the  leading  Republicans  of  the  State,  as  well  as  that 
of  the  principal  journals  of  the  party,  favored  his  election.  But  im- 
mediately after  the  close  of  the  civil  war  he  had  declared,  as  the  ba- 
sis for  reuniting  the  republic  in  the  bonds  of  friendship  and  brother- 
hood, in  favor  of  "  universal  amnesty  and  impartial  suffrage."  In 
this  he  was,  as  usual,  in  advance  of  his  party,  though  they  have 
since  seen  the  wisdom  of  his  suggestion,  and  have  substantially 
adopted  his   plan  of  pacification.     Against   the  judgment   of  his 


202  MEMOPJAL   OF   IIOKACE   GREELEY. 

friends,  but  in  order  that  he  sliould  not  be  elected  under  any  possi- 
ble raisapprehension  as  to  his  views  for  the  pacification  of  the  South, 
lie  reiterated  them  just  before  the  meeting  of  the  Legislative  caucus, 
in  a  strong  and  vigorous  article  in  The  Tribune  over  his  own  signa- 
ture. This  threw  him  out  of  line  for  the  Senatorship,  as  he  expected, 
it  would,  and  so  said  to  his  intimate  friends,  who  vainly  tried  to  in- 
duce him  to  suppress  the  article  "till  after  the  election."  In  1869, 
in  a  foi-lorn  hope,  after  two  or  three  Republican  candidates  who  had 
been  nominated  had  declined  to  run  for  State  Controller,  he  accept- 
ed the  position,  and  though  defeated  in  the  contest,  as  every  one  ex- 
pected he  would  be,  he  ran  ahead  of  the  entire  Republican  State 
ticket,  seven  candidates  in  all,  with  the  single  exception  of  Gen. 
Franz  Sigel,  who  received  a  considerable  Gei'man  vote  which  was 
not  cast  for  the  other  Republican  nominees. 

In  1870,  he  ran  for  Congress  in  the  Sixth  District,  against  the 
Hon.  S.  S.  Cox,  and  though  too  ill  to  make  a  single  speech  in  the 
district,  he  reduced  the  Democratic  majority  there  from  about  2,700, 
two  years  before,  to  about  1,000,  and  ran  300  ahead  of  Gen.  Wood- 
ford, the  Republican  candidate  for  Governor  in  1870. 

The  political  year  of  1872  found  the  United  States  in  a  yet  un- 
satisfactory and  disunited  condition.  The  States  lately  in  rebellion 
were  yet  abandoned  almost  entirely  to  anarchy,  with  the  laws  ineffi- 
ciently enforced,  with  a  great  portion  of  the  populaton  uneasy  and 
discontented,  with  the  public  treasuries  depleted  by  systematic  rob- 
bery, and  a  considerable  poi'tion  of  the  inhabitants  groaning  under 
what  they  regarded  as  no  better  than  despotism.  This  Avas  of  itself, 
to  many  honest  and  patriotic  minds,  a  sufficient  reason  for  opjiosing 
the  reelection  of  Gen.  Grant;  yet  there  were  others  almost  equally 
weighty.  The  Civil  Service,  by  general  admission,  was  not  what  it 
sliould  be.  There  were  grave  charges  of  Executive  corruption, 
which  were  not  then  and  have  not  yet  been  satisfactorily  explained. 
Thci-e  was  at  least  an  unpleasant  suspicion  of  nepotism  in  the  distri- 
bution of  the  public  patronage,  which  demanded,  but  did  not  receive, 
investigation.  There  was  a  general  desire  for  an  honest  Govern- 
ment. It  was  under  these  pressing  circumstances  that  the  Liberal 
Convention  met  at  Cincinnati  on  May  1st.  It  was  attended  by  a 
vast  delegation  from  all  parts  of  the  Union.  Mr.  Carl  Schurz,  who 
presided,  very  ably  and  forcibly  stated  the  reason  and  aim  of  the 
Convention.  He  alluded  to  the  "jobbery  and  corruption  stimulated 
to  unusual  audacity,  by  the  opportunities  of  a  protracted  civil  war 


BIOGRAPHY.  263 

invading  the  public  service  of  the  Government,  as  almost  all  move- 
ments of  the  social  body," — to  "  a  public  opinion  most  deplorably- 
lenient  in  its  judgment  of  public  and  private  dishonesty," — to  "  a 
Government  indulging  in  wanton  disregard  of  the  laws  of  the  land, 
and  resorting  to  daring  assumptions  of  unconstitutional  power," — to 
"the  people,  apparently,  at  least,  acquiescing  with  reckless  levity 
in  transgressions  threatening  the  very  life  of  our  free  institutions," 
He  thought  the  opportunity  "  grand  and  full  of  promise."  Judge 
Matthews,  of  Ohio,  subsequently  spoke  of  the  necessity  of  "  emanci- 
pating the  politics  and  business  of  the  country  from  the  domination 
of  rings."  The  platform  adopted  by  the  Convention,  with  the  ac- 
companying resolutions,  was  conceived  in  a  similar  spirit.  It  ar- 
raiflrned  the  Administration  for  acting  "  as  if  the  laws  had  bindinor 

o  o  o 

force  only  for  those  who  are  governed,  and  not  for  those  who  gov- 
ern." It  charged  the  President  with  "  openly  using  the  powers  and 
opportunities  of  his  high  office  for  the  promotion  of  his  personal 
ends," — with  "keeping  notoriously  unworthy  and  corrupt  men  in 
places  of  responsibility,  to  the  detriment  of  the  public  interest," — 
with  "  using  the  public  service  of  the  Government  as  a  machineiy 
for  partisan  and  i^ersonal  influence,  and  interfering  with  tyrannical 
arrogance  in  the  political  afiairs  of  States  and  municipalities," — with 
"  receiving  valuable  presents,  and  appointing  to  lucrative  office  those 
who  gave  them," — with  resorting  to  arbitrary  measures,  and  failing 
to  appeal  "  to  the  better  instincts  and  latent  patriotism  of  the  South- 
ern people,  by  restoring  to  them  those  rights,  the  enjoyment  of 
which  is  indispensable  for  a  successful  administration  of  their  local 
affairs."  The  platform  was  in  accordance  with  these  vaews,  calling 
for  local  self-government,  for  a  reform  of  the  Civil  Service,  for  a 
speedy  return  to  specie  jDayments,  for  a  removal  of  all  disabilities 
imj^osed  on  account  of  the  Rebellion,  and  pledging  the  Liberal  party 
to  maintain  the  Union,  emancipation,  and  enfranchisement,  and  to 
oppose  reopening  of  the  questions  settled  by  the  Xlllth,  XlVth, 
and  XVth  Amendments.  Upon  the  sixth  ballot,  after  various 
changes,  Mr.  Greeley  received  a  clear  majority  of  all  the  votes  cast, 
and  was  declai'ed  the  nominee  of  the  Convention  for  the  Presidency, 
and  B.  Gratz  Brown  was  also  nominated  for  the  Vice-Presidency. 
After  many  demonstrations  of  the  warmest  enthusiasm,  the  Conven- 
tion adjourned. 

Mr.  Greeley,  in  accepting  the  nomination  of  the  Convention,  took 
the  ground  that  "  all  the  political  rights  and  franchises  which  have 


2G4  MEMORIAL   OF   IIOEACE   GREELEY. 

been  acquired  tlirougli  our  late  bloody  convulsion,  must  and  shall 
be  guaranteed,  maintained,  enjoyed,  respected  evermore,"  and  that 
"all  the  political  rights  and  franchises  which  have  been  lost  through 
that  convulsion  should  and  must  be  promptly  restored  and  reestab- 
lished, so  that  there  shall  be  henceforth  no  proscribed  class,  and  no 
disfranchised  class  within  the  limits  of  the  Union,  whose  long- 
estranged  people  shall  reunite  and  fraternize  upon  the  broad  basis 
of  Universal  Amnesty  with  Impartial  Suffrage."  Mr.  Greeley  also 
wrote  strongly  in  favor  of  the  maintenance  of  the  equal  rights  of  all 
citizens,  and  of  the  policy  of  local  self-government,  as  contradistin- 
guished from  centralization.  Upon  other  points,  Mr.  Greeley  ad- 
vocated Civil  Service  Keform,  a  reservation  of  the  public  lands  for 
actual  settlers,  the  maintenance  of  the  public  faith  and  national 
credit,  a  due  care  for  the  soldiers  and  sailors  of  the  Republic ;  and 
he  concluded  by  promising,  if  elected,  to  be  the  President  "  not  of  a 
party,  but  of  the  whole  people."  In  July  following,  Mr.  Greeley 
also  received  the  nomination  of  the  Democratic  Convention  at  Balti- 
more, and  he  was  now  fairly  before  the  country  as  the  Presidential 
cantlidate  of  two  great  parties. 

The  canvass  which  followed  developed  a  faculty  in  Mr.  Greeley 
for  which  he  had  hardly  received  credit,  even  from  his  admirers. 
He  spoke  constantly,  and  in  all  parts  of  the  country ;  and  the  test 
to  which  he  thus  voluntarily  subjected  himself  was  admitted,  by 
almost  universal  consent,  nobly  maintained.  He  discussed  all  the 
great  questions  before  the  country  boldly,  and  without  hesitation 
or  concealment.  He  was  attended  and  eagerly  listened  to  on  such 
occasions  by  immense  throngs  of  the  people;  and  he  bore  the  im- 
mense strain  on  both  his  physical  and  intellectual  powers  without 
flinching.  lie  had,  as  a  matter  of  course,  upon  his  nomination, 
retired  from  the  editorial  charge  of  The  Tribune^  but  he  was  still 
affectionately  welcomed  by  his  old  readei-s,  with  the  same  cordiality, 
when  he  came  to  speak  to  them  with  the  living  voice. 

1'lie  result  of  the  canvass  is  detailed  in  another  part  of  "The 
Tribune  Almanac."  Our  system  of  Presidential  elections  is  such  that 
a  candidate  may  receive,  as  Mr.  Greeley  did,  a  large  popular  vote, 
and,  at  the  same  time,  a  very  small  one  in  the  Electoral  Colleges. 
Mr.  Greeley  did  not  carry  many  States,  but  the  results  of  the  Lib- 
eral movenunt  were  at  once  felt  in  fresh  promises  from  the  incoming 
Administration,  and  in  an  assurance,  at  least  semi-official,  that  the 
errors  and    mistakes   of  which  the  complaint    had    been    so  loud, 


r.lOCUIAl'HY.  265 

would  not  be  repealed.  Mr.  Greeley  came  back  cheerfully  and 
pliilosopliieally  to  his  old  Tribune  chair,  and  girt  himself  for  the 
old  work, '-which,  alas  !  lie  was  not  to  continue. 

Tlie  strong-  physical  and  mental  constitution  of  the  man  was 
alrea<ly  broken  by  ninny  cares,  by  enormous  labors,  and  by  the  loss 
of  a  wile  to  whom  he  was  d.notodly  attached,  and  who  had  been 
for  so  many  years  his  helper  and  )ii3  cheerer.  For  The  Tribune 
he  wrote  h;irdly  at  all,  and  at  last  he  was  obliged  to  give  up  vis- 
iting the  office  leuularly.  His  sleeplessness  was  followed  by  inflam- 
mation of  the  brail),  and  undei-  this  he  rapidly  sank,  dying  on 
Friday,  November  29.  Tlie  earthly  life  which  had  been  so  busy, 
so  laboriou-.  :ui(l  so  fruitful,  was  over. 

Such  was  tlK-  life  and  such  the  death  of  Horace  Greeley.  Our 
limits  liave  compelled  us  to  epitomize  that  which  might  have  been, 
and  indeed  ali-eady  has  been,  extended  to  volumes.  But  most  of 
the  readei's  of  "The  Tribune  Almanac"  are  already  familiar  with 
the  career  of  one  whose  course  they  were  accustomed  to  watch  with 
interest,  nllection,  and  respect.  No  man  was  ever  more  generally 
respected — no  man  ever  died  more  generally  regretted.  He  has 
passed  from  the  busy  scenes  of  earth,  in  which  he  was  one  of  the 
most  useful  and  busy ;  but  as  the  self  cultivated  man  of  letters,  the 
philanthropist,  the  reformer,  and  the  unsurpassed  journalist,  he  will 
be  honorably  remembered  so  long  as  the  history  of  the  Republic 
shall  survive. 


266  MEMORIAL   OF    HORACE  GREELEY. 


AFTER    THE     BURIAL. 

[From  The  Tribune,  December  5.] 

."It  18  done."  Earth  to  earth:  ashes  to  ashes:  dust  to  dust.  To 
the  dead  there  remains  rest,  and  to  the  living  the  burden  of  life. 
Into  the  hands  of  his  servant  God  gave  great  possibilities.  He  took 
back  to  God  great  achievements.  It  did  not  need  the  press  and 
throng  of  yesterday;  the  mute  mourning  of  men  and  women  of  all 
ages,  and  conditions,  and  avocations,  and  religious  faiths ;  the  som- 
ber state  of  the  funeral  train  wherein  the  highest  officers  of  the 
nation  bore  their  part  not  less  than  the  humblest  citizens ;  the  great 
multitude  of  people  who  waited  for  hours  under  the  wintry  sky  only 
to  bow  their  heads  as  their  friend  was  borne  past  them  to  his  burial  j 
it  did  not  need  all  these  to  show  the  curiously  wide  significance  of 
Horace  Greeley's  life. 

The  generation  that  most  misses  him  is  the  generation  that  he 
finely  touched  to  so  fine  issues.  Thirty  years  ago  two  classes  of 
young  men  awaited  him.  The  first  was  made  up  of  farmers,  me- 
chanics, artisans;  industrious  and  thrifty  fellows,  strong,  honest,  and 
capable,  but  coarse,  narrow,  and  uncultured.  To  them  The  Tribune 
came  as  the  revelation  of  a  life  undreamed  of.  A  life  of  books,  and 
art,  and  daily  beauty.  A  life  of  noble  thinking  and  large  action. 
They  knew  labor  to  be  their  inevitable  portion.  They  saw  how  it 
might  become  their  highest  dignity.  Into  prairie  cabin,  and  frontier 
hut,  and  settler's  saw-mill,  and  artisan's  tenement  went  these  vivid 
thoughts  of  a  new  thinker,  and  kindled  a  wise  discontent  and  a  bet- 
ter endeavor. 

The  second  class  was  made  up  of  dilettante  and  delicate  youth. 
They  did  not  like  the  smell  nor  the  manners  of  the  commonalty. 
They  doubted,  after  all,  whether  a  paternal  government  was  not 
best  for  the  masses.  Culture  was  their  shibboleth.  Life,  at  best, 
seemed  a  little  botched  to  them.  They  were  persons  of  the  most 
cultivated  distaste.  To  them  came  this  same  T'ibune  like  the  sound 
of  a  trumpet,  like  the  blast  of  the  north  wind.  It  was  full  of  a  rude 
health  and  rustic  honesty.  It  shook  them  off  their  narrow  pedestals 
and  gave  them  the  broad  earth  to  stand  on.  It  taught  them  that 
the  value  of  culture  was  its  service  to  humanity. 

From  these  two  ranks  of  men  came  the  first  recruits  of  that  great 
army  which  Horace  Greeley,  more  than  any  other  one  man,  raised 


AFTER  THE  BURIAL.  267 

up  for  liberty  and  the  rights  of  all  men  everywhere.  The  time  is 
coming  when  Napoleon  and  Wellington  will  no  longer  seem  heroic 
figures  in  a  people's  eyes,  because  the  ideas  they  typified  will  be 
seen  to  have  been  base  and  selfish.  And  in  that  day  the  dead  jour- 
nalist, defamed  and  misunderstood  and  ridiculed  while  he  lived,  will 
come  to  tardy  monumental  honors  as  the  real  hero,  the  human  expo- 
nent of  the  divine  idea  of  love. 

It  is  common  to  call  him  "  our  later  Franklin."  But  that  is  to 
belittle  him.  There  is  a  likeness  in  the  good-natured  shrewdness, 
the  practical  wisdom,  the  pithy  speech,  the  wish  to  benefit  men  in 
homely  ways.  But  the  moral  nature  of  the  pupil  was  infinitely 
broader  and  sweeter  than  that  of  the  master ;  and  while  the  aphor- 
isms of  the  older  sage  have  a  slight  taste  of  copper,  a  certain  two- 
penny ha'-penny  morality  and  exactness,  the  frugality  and  abste- 
miousness which  the  younger  practiced  only  gave  him  the  larger 
means  of  charity,  while  saving  for  the  sake  of  saving  seemed  to  him 
only  less  ignoble  than  spending  for  the  sake  of  spending. 

More  than  to  most  men  it  was  given  to  him  to  see  of  the  travail 
of  his  soul  and  be  satisfied.  Yet  the  nation  is  coming  to  understand 
that  no  success  of  his  was  so  triumphant  as  that  which,  on  the  fifth 
of  November,  we  all  called  a  defeat.  To  have  educated  a  people 
into  such  a  stern  and  high  love  of  liberty,  that,  when  it  fancied, 
however  blindly,  his  feet  to  be  turning  into  strange  jDaths,  it  should 
choose  to  follow  his  great  counsels  rather  than  his  great  leadership, 
is  such  glory  as  a  man  might  well  spend  himself  to  win.  There  may 
be  an  end  now  of  the  cruel  taunt  that  his  vanity  persuaded  him  to 
be  a  candidate,  and  that  he  counted  on  a  love  and  confidence  from 
the  people  which  he  had  never  possessed.  The  universal  grief  de- 
clares that  not  his  most  sanguine  friends,  not  he,  himself,  dreamed 
of  the  real  affection  that  went  out  to  him.  Never  able  quite  to  keep 
pace  with  him,  the  people  had  painfully  struggled  up  to  a  position 
from  which,  with  larger  vision,  he  had  stepped  to  a  higher.  When 
they  seemed  to  deny  him  they  were  his  truest  disciples.  God  per- 
mits us  the  high  ends  we  set  ourselves,  but  often  changes  the  means 
to  better.  Our  leader,  and  those  of  us  who  followed  him,  believed 
that  his  words  and  his  works  would  convince  the  people  that  mag- 
nanimity begets  magnanimity;  forgiveness,  repentance,  and  deeds 
meet  for  repentance ;  and  love  the  acts  of  love.  We  see  now  that 
only  his  death  could  be  thus  eloquent.  Beside  graves,  men  are 
touched  with  charity.     They  are  swift  to  offer  reparation  to  the  dead 


268 


MEMORIAL   OF   HORACE   GREELEY. 


for  injustice  done  the  living.  And  the  day  is  not  far  distant  when 
Horace  Greeley's  last  act,  the  candidacy  that  resulted  from  his  pas- 
sionate desire  to  lift  up  the  beautiful  and  prostrate  South,  and  to  see 
the  Union  reunited  and  resplendent,  will  seem  the  whitest  and  brav- 
est of  a  long  lifo'.s  bnivc  deeds. 

If  we  had  a  Wcstniinster  Abbey,  our  friend  would  yesterday 
have  been  laid  therein.  And  yet  he  would  not  have  desired  that 
stately  isolation.  For  he  believed  that  more  and  more,  as  the  years 
go  on,  the  sentiment  of  religion  would  refuse  to  be  entombed  in 
cathedrals,  and  to  consecrate  here  and  there  a  building.  To  him  all 
places  were  sacred  whei'ein  a  great  humanity  had  followed  after  the 
Highest.  And  he  would  have  chosen  the  equal  sky  for  his  canopy, 
and  the  generous  earth  for  his  bed,  because  the  same  rest  and  shelter 
are  free  to  all  the  race.  We  can  afford  to  leave  him  in  his  unmarked 
grave.  Time  and  Death,  those  kindly  counselors,  have  undertaken 
his  vindication,  who  in  life  would  never  stoop  to  vindicate  himself, 
and  to  them  we  may  safely  trust  his  fame. 

For  Humanity  sweeps  onward.    Where  to-day  the  martyr  stands, 
On  tiie  morrow  crouches  Judas  with  the  silver  in  his  hands; 
And  the  hooting  mob  of  yesterd.iy  in  silent  awe  returns 
To  gather  up  the  scattered  jvshes  into  History's  golden  urns. 


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